Meteorological bias in satellite estimates of aerosol-cloud relationships

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Mauger, Guillaume S ^a   Norris, Joel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLOUDS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD FRACTION; LOWER TROPOSPHERIC STATIC STABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLOUD; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 35948976108     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029952     Document Type: Article

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