Cirus mammatus properties derived from an extended remote sensing dataset

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 712-725

  Wang, Likun ^a,b,c   Sassen, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; DOPPLER RADAR; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CIRRUS MAMMATUS; CLOUD-INDUCED THERMAL STRUCTURES;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CIRRUS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33645107043     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3648.1     Document Type: Article

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