Case study of inhomogeneous cloud parameter retrieval from MODIS data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Cornet, Céline ^a   Buriez, Jean Claude ^a   Riédi, Jérôme ^a   Isaka, Harumi ^b   Guillemet, Bernard ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

FRACTIONAL CLOUD; INHOMOGENEOUS CLOUD PARAMETER RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL THICKNESS; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE;

METEOROLOGY;

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; INHOMOGENEITY; MODIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 24944454952     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022791     Document Type: Article

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