Use of a lidar forward model for global comparisons of cloud fraction between the ICESat lidar and the ECMWF model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3742-3759

  Wilkinson, Jonathan M ^a,c   Hogan, Robin J ^a   Illingworth, Anthony J ^a   Benedetti, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; ICE; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BACKSCATTER RATIOS; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLOUD FRACTIONS; ECMWF MODELS; EFFECTIVE RADIUSES; EUROPEANS; FORWARD MODELS; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; ICE CLOUDS; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LIDAR RATIOS; MODEL VARIABLES; NEW MODELS; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SKILL SCORES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; BOUNDARY LAYER; LIDAR; MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57149126696     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2309.1     Document Type: Article

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