Characterization of cloud liquid water content distributions from CloudSat

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Seungwon ^a   Kahn, Brian H ^a   Teixeira, João ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; LIQUIDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SUPERCOOLING; TROPICS; WATER CONTENT;

CLOUD HYDROMETEORS; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; CLOUD TYPES; CLOUDSAT; DATA SAMPLING; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOCATIONS; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; MIDTROPOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POLAR LATITUDE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); PURE LIQUIDS; SUB-GRIDS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; SUPERCOOLED WATER; THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; CLOUDSAT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; LIQUID; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 78049405124     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013272     Document Type: Article

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