Validation of a cirrus parameterization with Meteosat Second Generation observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Chaboureau, Jean Pierre ^a   Pinty, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ICE; METEOROLOGY; SNOW; TROPOSPHERE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE (BTD); CIRRUS PARAMETERIZATION; DIURNAL CYCLE; ICE TO SNOW AUTOCONVERSION THRESHOLD; TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTION; UPPER-TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY (UTH);

CLOUDS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645830730     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024725     Document Type: Article

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