Aura MLS THz observations of global cirrus near the tropopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Wu, Dong L ^a   Pickett, H M ^a   Livesey, N J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; NASA; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CLOUD ICE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; PARTICLE SCATTERING; SPACE-BORNE; TERAHERTZ; THERMAL EMISSION;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 53749086457     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034233     Document Type: Article

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