The 94-GHz radar dim band: Relevance to ice cloud properties and CloudSat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Heymsfield, Andrew J ^a   Bansemer, Aaron ^a   Matrosov, Sergey ^b   Tian, Lin ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CLOUDS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

ICE CLOUD; ICE WATER CONTENT; RADAR REFLECTIVITY;

METEOROLOGY;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 41849089369     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031361     Document Type: Article

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