Interannual variability of smoke and warm cloud relationships in the Amazon as inferred from MODIS retrievals

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 435-449

  Yu, Hongbin ^a,b,c   Fu, Rong ^b   Dickinson, Robert E ^b   Zhang, Yan ^b   Chen, Mingxuan ^b   Wang, Hui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Cloud; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); SATELLITE REMOTE SENSINGS; SMOKE CLOUD RELATIONSHIPS;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; ENERGY FLUX; EOS; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMOKE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 35548972886     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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