Use of MISR measurements to study the radiative transfer of an isolated convective cloud: Implications for cloud optical thickness retrieval

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Cornet, Celine ^a,b   Davies, R ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPECTROMETERS;

CLEAR SKY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SCATTERING; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

EID: 42549156122     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008921     Document Type: Article

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