Classifying clouds around the globe with the CloudSat radar: 1-year of results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sassen, Kenneth ^a   Wang, Zhien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; CLOUD TYPE; EARTHS CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 44249118600     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032591     Document Type: Article

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