Arctic mixed-phase stratiform cloud properties from multiple years of surface-based measurements at two high-latitude locations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2874-2887

  de Boer, Gijs ^a   Eloranta, Edwin W ^a   Shupe, Matthew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLOUDS; CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD-BASE HEIGHT; EFFECTIVE DIAMETER; ICE MASS; LIQUID WATER; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; MIXED-PHASE STRATIFORM CLOUD; NUMBER DENSITY; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SEASONAL MEAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE LAYER; STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ARCTIC CHANGES; SURFACE-BASED; WIND CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; LIQUIDS; LOCATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSONDES;

CLOUDS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; LIDAR; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIOSONDE; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 72049125518     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3029.1     Document Type: Article

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