The potential for improved boundary layer cloud optical depth retrievals from the multiple directions of MISR

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3179-3196

  Evans, K Franklin ^a   Marshak, Alexander ^b   Várnai, Tamás ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CAMERAS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; REFLECTION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTHS; CUMULUS CLOUDS; DIFFERENT SIZES; LAND SURFACES; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; MULTIANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OCEAN SURFACES; OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVALS; OPTICAL DEPTHS; PARALLEL RETRIEVALS; PIXEL PATCHES; PIXEL SPACINGS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SIMULATION APPROACHES; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLES; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STATISTICAL RETRIEVALS; VARIOUS CONFIGURATIONS; ZENITH ANGLES;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETER; STRATOCUMULUS; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 56849091230     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2627.1     Document Type: Article

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