Biogeography of tropical montane cloud forests. Part I: Remote sensing of cloud-base heights

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 960-975

  Welch, Ronald M ^a   Asefi, Salvi ^a   Zeng, Jian ^a,c   Nair, Udaysankar S ^a   Han, Qingyuan ^a   Lawton, Robert O ^a   Ray, Deepak K ^a,b   Manoharan, Vani Starry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BLOCK CODES; ERRORS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADIABATIC MODELS; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESSES; CLOUD PRODUCTS; COSTA RICA; DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES; EMPIRICAL METHODS; HEIGHT ESTIMATES; LIQUID WATERS; MEAN SQUARES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NATURAL VARIATIONS; OROGRAPHIC CLOUDS; RADIOSONDE MEASUREMENTS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROPICAL MONTANE CLOUD FORESTS;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLOUD FOREST; DEW POINT; MODIS; MONTANE FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 57649165546     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1668.1     Document Type: Article

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