Coordination of quid pro quo ground-based measurements of cloud and aerosol optical properties for validation of the CALIPSO mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5653, Issue , 2005, Pages 281-289

  Kovacs, Thomas A ^a   Patrick McCormick, M ^a   Trepte, Charles R ^b   Winker, David M ^b   Garnier, Anne ^c   Pelon, Jacques ^c  

^a HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

A train; Aerosol; Backscatter; CALIPSO; Cloud; Emissivity; Extinction; Lidar; Radiometer; Validation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; CAMERAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER; INFRARED IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

A-TRAIN; BACKSCATTER; CALIPSO; EMISSIVITY; EXTINCTION; VALIDATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 20344384289     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.578100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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