The determination of cloud altitudes using GOME reflectance spectra: Multilayered cloud systems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1009-1017

  Rozanov, Vladimir V ^a   Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a,b   Burrows, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Clouds; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTONS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS (ATSR); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE (TOA);

CLOUDS;

EID: 2642553859     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.825586     Document Type: Article

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