Detecting opaque and nonopaque tropical upper tropospheric ice clouds: A trispectral technique based on the MODIS 8-12 μm window bands

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Hong, Gang ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Heidinger, Andrew K ^b   Pavolonis, Michael J ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^c   Platnick, Steven E ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; ICE; LAKES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE; TOOLS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; CALIPSO; CIRRUS REGIONAL STUDY OF TROPICAL ANVILS AND CIRRUS LAYERS; CLOUD HEIGHTS; CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS; CLOUDSAT; FLORIDA AREA CIRRUS EXPERIMENTS; ICE CLOUDS; INFRARED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MODIS AIRBORNE SIMULATOR; THIN CIRRUS; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL; ZENITH ANGLE;

CLOUDS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIPSO; CIRRUS; CLOUDSAT; MODIS; TROPOSPHERE; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 78149349216     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014004     Document Type: Article

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