A strong ice cloud event as seen by a microwave satellite sensor: Simulations and observations

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1705-1718

  Sreerekha, T R ^a   Buehler, S A ^b   O'Keeffe, U ^a   Doherty, A ^a   Emde, C ^c   John, V O ^d  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Polarisation; Radiative transfer; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ICE; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD WATER CONTENT; ICE CLOUD;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIMULATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 43149107671     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.12.023     Document Type: Article

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