Global statistics of liquid water content and effective number concentration of water clouds over ocean derived from combined CALIPSO and MODIS measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3353-3359

  Hu, Y ^a   Vaughan, M ^b   McClain, C ^c   Behrenfeld, M ^d   Maring, H ^e   Anderson, D ^e   Sun Mack, S ^b   Flittner, D ^a   Huang, J ^b   Wielicki, B ^a   Minnis, P ^a   Weimer, C ^f   Trepte, C ^a   Kuehn, R ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^f BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 34347339355     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-3353-2007     Document Type: Article

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