Depolarization ratio and attenuated backscatter for nine cloud types: Analyses based on collocated CALIPSO lidar and MODIS measurements

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3931-3948

  Cho, Hyoun Myoung ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Nasiri, Shaima L ^a   Hu, Yongxiang ^b   Minnis, Patrick ^b   Trepte, Charles ^b   Winker, David ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACKSCATTERING; DEPOLARIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RADAR;

ATTENUATED BACKSCATTERS; CLOUD SYSTEMS; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS);

CLOUDS;

WATER;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; RADAR; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WATER;

EID: 41149128930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003931     Document Type: Article

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