Comparison of AIRS, MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO cloud top height retrievals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Weisz, Elisabeth ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^a   Heidinger, Andrew K ^b   Kahn, Brian H ^c   Liu, Chian Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; OPTICAL RADAR; SOUNDING ROCKETS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); CLOUD TOP HEIGHT; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATION (CALIPSO); EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS);

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIDAR; MODIS; PATH ANALYSIS; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34848835605     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030676     Document Type: Article

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