CERES Cloud Property Retrievals from Imagers on TRMM, Terra, and Aqua

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5235, Issue , 2004, Pages 37-48

  Minnis, Patrick ^a   Young, David ^a   Sun Mack, Sunny ^b   Heck, Patrick W ^c   Doelling, David R ^c   Trepte, Qing Z ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; CERES; Climatology; Cloud microphysics; Clouds; MODIS; Radiation; Remote sensing; Terra; VIRS

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CRYSTALS; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); ICE; INFRARED RADIATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER;

AQUA; CERES; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MODIS; TERRA; VIRS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 1942516822     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.511210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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