Properties of high-altitude tropical cirrus clouds determined from ACE FTS observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Eremenko, M N ^a   Zasetsky, A Y ^a   Boone, C D ^a   Sloan, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLOUDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ICE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; ICE DENSITY;

METEOROLOGY;

CIRRUS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL REGION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 25844487659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022428     Document Type: Article

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