Global distribution of cirrus clouds from CloudSat/cloud-aerosol lidar and infrared pathfinder satellite observations (CALIPSO) measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Sassen, Kenneth ^a   Wang, Zhien ^b   Liu, Dong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL LIDARS; APRIORI; AVERAGE FREQUENCY; CALIPSO; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD RADAR; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; FORMATION FLYING; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTILAYERED CLOUDS; NEW RESULTS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE BALANCE; REMOTE SENSORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER PHENOMENA;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; CIRRUS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 66949124660     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD009972     Document Type: Article

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