Statistical analyses of satellite cloud object data from CERES. Part I: Methodology and preliminary results of the 1998 El Niño/2000 La Niña

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2497-2514

  Xu, Kuan Man ^a   Wong, Takmeng ^a   Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Parker, Lindsay ^b   Eitzen, Zachary A ^a,c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); EL NINA; EL NINO; SATELLITE CLOUD DATA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD COVER; EL NINO; EOS; LA NINA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 22944459670     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3418.1     Document Type: Article

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