Validation of MERIS cloud-top pressure using airborne lidar measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1612-1621

  Lindstrot, Rasmus ^a   Preusker, Rene ^a   Ruhtz, Thomas ^a   Heese, Birgit ^b   Wiegner, Matthias ^b   Lindemann, Carsten ^a   Fischer, Jürgen ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SPECTROMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIRBORNE LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; CLOUD-TOP PRESSURE; MEDIUM-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MERIS);

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUD; LIDAR; MERIS; RADIANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846252783     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2436.1     Document Type: Article

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