Instantaneous cloud overlap statistics in the tropical area revealed by ICESat/GLAS data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Likun ^a,b,d   Dessler, Andrew E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; INSTANTANEOUS CLOUD OVERLAP STATISTICS; LASER ATTENUATION; MULTILAYER CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 33845669442     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024350     Document Type: Article

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