Simultaneous estimates of cloud and rainfall parameters in the atmospheric vertical column above the Atmospheric Radiation easurement Program southern Great Plains site

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ICE; LIQUIDS; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CHARACTERISTIC VALUE; CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISDROMETERS; FREEZING LEVELS; GROUND BASED; ICE MASS; ICE WATER PATHS; INITIAL ESTIMATE; LIQUID LAYER; MELTING LAYERS; MULTIFREQUENCY RADAR; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL RATES; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; STORM DYNAMICS; VERTICAL COLUMNS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CLOUD WATER; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 72049104785     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012004     Document Type: Article

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