Impact of the vertical variation of cloud droplet size on the estimation of cloud liquid water path and rain detection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3843-3853

  Chen, Ruiyue ^a   Chang, Fu Lung ^b   Li, Zhanqing ^a   Ferraro, Ralph ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b National Institute for Aerospace   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ANDVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; CLOUD DROPLET SIZE; DROPLET EFFECTIVE RADIUS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD DROPLET; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 37349081930     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2126.1     Document Type: Article

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