Synergetic use of POLDER and MODIS for multilayered cloud identification

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1910-1923

  Yao, Zhigang ^a   Han, Zhigang ^a   Zhao, Zengliang ^a   Lin, Longfu ^a   Fan, Xuehua ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud; CloudSat; MODIS; Multilayered; POLDER

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEASUREMENT; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD IDENTIFICATION; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; CLOUDSAT; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; EARTH REFLECTANCE; EAST ASIA; LIQUID CLOUD; LIQUID WATER; LIQUID WATER CLOUDS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTILAYERED CLOUDS; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; OPERATIONAL METHODS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; THIN CIRRUS; WATER CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERICS; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; CLOUDSAT; DATA SET; LIDAR; MODIS; POLDER; REMOTE SENSING; SYNERGISM;

EID: 77954817533     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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