Assessment of the quality of MODIS cloud products from radiance simulations

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1591-1612

  Ham, Seung Hee ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^a   Yang, Ping ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; BULK SCATTERING; CALIPSO; CLOUD LAYERS; CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD PRODUCTS; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD-BASE HEIGHT; CLOUDSAT; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; HUMIDITY PROFILE; ICE CLOUDS; IN-SITU; INPUT DATAS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEGATIVE BIAS; PLANE-PARALLEL ATMOSPHERES; POSITIVE BIAS; RADIANCE SIMULATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; SHORT-WAVE BANDS; SIMULATED RADIANCES; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TOA RADIANCE; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; VERTICAL CLOUD DISTRIBUTION; WATER-VAPOR ABSORPTION; ZENITH ANGLE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; CONDITION MONITORING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SPECTROMETERS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR; WINDOWS;

RADIOMETERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDSAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIDAR; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WATER VAPOR; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 70349656604     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2121.1     Document Type: Article

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