The influence of broken cloudiness on cloud top height retrievals using nadir observations of backscattered solar radiation in the oxygen A-band

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 460-477

  Kokhanovsky, A A ^a   Mayer, B ^b   Rozanov, V V ^a   Wapler, K ^b   Burrows, J P ^a   Schumann, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud; Cloud top height; Light scattering; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT (CTH); RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

SOLAR RADIATION;

BACKSCATTER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LIGHT SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 33750159051     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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