Ground-based lidar and radar remote sensing of tropical cirrus clouds at Nauru Island: Cloud statistics and radiative impacts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue D23, 2002, Pages

  Comstock, Jennifer M ^a   Ackerman, Thomas P ^a   Mace, Gerald G ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar remote sensing; Tropical cirrus; Tropical tropopause

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044431659     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JD002203     Document Type: Article

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