Global CALIPSO observations of aerosol changes near clouds

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-23

  Várnai, Tamás ^a,b   Marshak, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; cloud; CloudAerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO); lidar; satellite

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL DETECTION; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL PRODUCT; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; CALIPSO; CLOUD IDENTIFICATION; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; GLOBAL DATA; LIDAR; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LOW ALTITUDES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE PROCESS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSITION ZONES;

CLOUDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 78650927865     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2049982     Document Type: Article

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