Consistency of global satellite-derived aerosol and cloud data sets with recent brightening observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Cermak, Jan ^a   Wild, Martin ^a   Knutti, Reto ^a   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b   Heidinger, Andrew K ^c  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; SUN;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; CHANGE POINT DETECTION; CLOUD DATA; EARTH SURFACE; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; GLOBAL CHANGE; OPTICAL DEPTH; SOLAR RADIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 78149449146     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044632     Document Type: Article

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