Subvisual cirrus cloud observations using a 1064-nm lidar, a 95 GHz cloud radar, and radiosondes in the warm pool region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Iwasaki, Suginori ^a   Tsushima, Yoko ^b   Shirooka, Ryuichi ^a   Katsumata, Masaki ^c   Yoneyama, Kunio ^c   Matsui, Ichiro ^d   Shimizu, Atsushi ^d   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^d   Kamei, Akihide ^e   Kuroiwa, Hiroshi ^e   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^e   Okamoto, Hajime ^f  

^a Front ObservGlobal Change   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; RADAR; RADIOSONDES; SEDIMENTATION; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

CLOUD RADARS; PHASE PROPAGATION; SYNERGY OBSERVATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; LIDAR; RADAR; RADIOSONDE;

EID: 3543088647     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019377     Document Type: Article

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