Retrievals of mixed-phase cloud properties during the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1452-1462

  Ou, Steve S C ^a   Liou, K N ^a   Wang, X J ^a   Hagan, D ^b   Dybdahl, A ^b   Mussetto, M ^b   Carey, L D ^c   Niu, J ^c   Kankiewicz, J A ^d   Kidder, S ^d   Vonder Haar, T H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED IMAGING; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; TABLE LOOKUP; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EFFECTIVE PARTICLE SIZE; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETERS; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD PROPERTIES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

ORBITS;

EID: 63149118624     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001452     Document Type: Article

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