The baltex bridge campaign: An integrated approach for a better understanding of clouds

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1565-1584

  Crewell, S ^a   Bloemink, H ^b   Feijt, A ^b   Garcia S G ^c   Jolivet, D ^b   Krasnov, O A ^d   van Lammeren, A ^b   Lohnert U ^a   van Meijgaard, E ^b   Meywerk, J ^e   Quante, M ^e   Pfeilsticker, K ^f   Schmidt, S ^g   Scholl, T ^f   Simmer, C ^a   Schroder M ^h   Trautmann, T ⁱ   Venema, V ^a   Wendisch, M ^g   Willen U ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^j SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT; CEILOMETER; CLOUD RADAR; CLOUD STRUCTURE; METEOROLOGICAL SENSOR; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; WIND PROFILERS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 3042770713     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-10-1565     Document Type: Article

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