Satellite monitoring of the first indirect aerosol effect: Retrieval of the droplet concentration of water clouds

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Boers, Reinout ^a   Acarreta, Juan R ^a,b   Gras, John L ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DEIMOS SPACE S L U   (Spain)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; CORRELATION METHODS; DROPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER CONTENT;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROPLET; EOS; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAPE GRIM; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIA;

EID: 34250190508     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006838     Document Type: Article

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