A comparison of cloud droplet radii measured from space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1796-1805

  Bréon, François Marie ^a   Doutriaux Boucher, Marie ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Clouds; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Polarization; Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances (POLDER); Radius

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CORRELATION METHODS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CLOUD DROPLET RADII; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); POLARIZATION AND DIRECTIONALITY OF EARTH'S REFLECTANCES (POLDER); RADIUS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 24944433458     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.852838     Document Type: Article

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