The plane-parallel albedo bias of liquid clouds from MODIS observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 5114-5125

  Oreopoulos, Lazaros ^a,b   Cahalan, Robert F ^a,b   Platnick, Steven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS;

INDEPENDENT COLUMN APPROXIMATION; LIQUID CLOUDS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); OPTICAL THICKNESS; SURFACE ALBEDO;

CLOUDS;

ALBEDO; DATA SET; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 35648992430     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4305.1     Document Type: Article

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