Cloud properties and radiative forcing over the maritime storm tracks of the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic derived from A-Train

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Mace, Gerald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COOLING; HEATING; LIQUIDS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

A-TRAIN; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CALIPSO; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; CLOUDSAT; COOLING EFFECTS; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; FRONTAL CLOUDS; ICE WATER PATHS; INDUCED HEATING; LIQUID WATER PATHS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORTH ATLANTIC; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE HEATING; REMOTE SENSORS; SENSING DATA; SOLAR COOLING; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STORM TRACK; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALIPSO; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDSAT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NADIR; OPTICAL DEPTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORM TRACK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77953202226     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012517     Document Type: Article

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