High cloud properties from three years of MODIS Terra and Aqua collection-4 data over the tropics

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1840-1856

  Hong, Gang ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Gao, Bo Cai ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^c   Hu, Yong X ^d   King, Michael D ^e   Platnick, Steven ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TROPICS;

CIRRIFORM CLOUDS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER INSTRUMENTS;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; EOS; ICE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 34548206056     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1583.1     Document Type: Article

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