A new satellite-based census of precipitating and nonprecipitating clouds over the tropics and subtropics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Qi ^a   Fu, Yunfei ^a   Yu, Rucong ^b   Sun, Liang ^a   Lu, Naimeng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; TROPICS;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; BOREAL SUMMER; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS (COT); CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD TYPES; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; NEW SATELLITES; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; REMOTE SENSING; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 45549098534     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033208     Document Type: Article

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