EOS MLS cloud ice measurements and cloudy-sky radiative transfer model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1156-1165

  Wu, Dong L ^a,b   Jiang, Jonathan H ^b,d   Davis, Cory P ^c,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Jet Propulsion Laboratory ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ice water content (IWC); Limb sounding; Microwave; Polarization; Satellite; Upper tropospheric clouds

Indexed keywords

ICE WATER CONTENT (IWC); LIMB SOUNDING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; UPPER-TROPOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ICE; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; SATELLITES;

CLOUDS;

EID: 33646344868     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.869994     Document Type: Article

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