The influence of thermodynamic phase on the retrieval of mixed-phase cloud microphysical and optical properties in the visible and near-infrared region

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 287-291

  Lee, Joonsuk ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Dessler, Andrew E ^a   Baum, Bryan A ^b   Platnick, Steven ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective particle size; Mixed phase clouds; Optical thickness; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EFFECTIVE PARTICLE SIZE; ICE PHASE PARTICLES; MIXED PHASE CLOUDS; OPTICAL THICKNESS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 33746587006     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.864374     Document Type: Article

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