Assessment of MISR and MODIS cloud top heights through inter-comparison with a back-scattering lidar at SIRTA

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Naud, Catherine ^a   Muller, Jan Peter ^a   Haeffelin, Martial ^b   Morille, Yohann ^b   Delaval, Arnaud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; OPTICAL RADAR; SCATTERING;

BACK-SCATTERING; LIDAR CLOUD BOUNDARIES; OPTICAL DEPTH; SLICING;

GEOPHYSICS;

BACKSCATTER; CLOUD COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2542473230     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018976     Document Type: Article

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