Intercomparison of ground-based radar and satellite cloud-top height retrievals for overcast single-layered cloud fields

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1901-1908

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a   Naud, Catherine M ^b   Devasthale, Abhay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies ^*  (United States)

^c SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clouds; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD RADAR; CLOUD RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED RADAR; HEIGHT RETRIEVAL; HYPERSPECTRAL; INTERCOMPARISON; INTERCOMPARISONS; LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CHARTOGRAPHY; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SINGLE LAYER; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; NASA; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; WATER ANALYSIS;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVISAT-1; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MERIS; MODIS; RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCIAMACHY;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67651158841     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010455     Document Type: Article

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