Analysis of ice water path retrieval errors over tropical ocean

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-180

  Huang, Jianping ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ice water path; Microwave imaging; Multi layered cloud; Retrieval errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646573978     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0165-4     Document Type: Article

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