Satellite retrievals of (quasi-)spherical particles at cold temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Choi, Yong Sang ^a   Ho, Chang Hoi ^b   Kim, Jinwon ^c   Lindzen, Richard S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; CLOUD PARTICLES; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COLD TEMPERATURES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS; NASA; SATELLITES; SPHERES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD SEEDING; SATELLITE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77949305780     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041818     Document Type: Article

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