Distribution and radiative forcing of tropical thin cirrus clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3721-3731

  Lee, Joonsuk ^a   Yang, Ping ^b   Dessler, Andrew E ^b   Gao, Bo Cai ^c   Platnick, Steven ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; BOREAL SPRING; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CIRRUS REFLECTANCE; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD MASK ALGORITHMS; FORCINGS; ICE CLOUDS; LONG WAVES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER CLOUD MASKS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE IMPACTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; THIN CIRRUS; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; WESTERN PACIFIC;

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; TROPICS;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MODIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PIXEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 73449138029     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3183.1     Document Type: Article

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