Tropical cirrus clouds near cold point tropopause under ice supersaturated conditions observed by lidar and ballon-borne cryogenic frost point hygrometer

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Shibata, Takashi ^a   Vömel, Holger ^b   Hamdi, Saipul ^c   Kaloka, Sri ^c   Hasebe, Fumio ^d   Fujiwara, Masatomo ^d   Shiotani, Masato ^e  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c National Institute of Aeronautics and Space   (Indonesia)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; ESTIMATION; HYGROMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; SUPERSATURATION;

BACKSCATTER; CIRRUS; FROST; LIDAR; MIXING RATIO; PARTICLE SIZE; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOPAUSE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; BANDUNG; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST JAVA;

EID: 34250664170     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007361     Document Type: Article

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