The time-space exchangeability of satellite retrieved relations between cloud top temperature and particle effective radius

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2887-2894

  Lensky, I M ^a   Rosenfeld, D ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULONIMBUS; METEOSAT; TIMESCALE;

EID: 33746192649     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-2887-2006     Document Type: Article

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