Intercomparison of height assignment methods for opaque clouds over the tropics

Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-19

  Kwon, Eun Han ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^a   Schmetz, Johannes ^b   Watts, Philip ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud top height; CloudSat; Meteosat 8; Opaque cloud; Ozone channel

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953488134     PISSN: 19767633     EISSN: 19767951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13143-010-0002-7     Document Type: Article

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