Toward new inferences about cloud structures from multidirectional measurements in the oxygen a band: Middle-of-cloud pressure and cloud geometrical thickness from POLDER-3/PARASOL

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2492-2507

  Ferlay, Nicolas ^a   Thieuleux, François ^a   Cornet, Céline ^a   Davis, Anthony B ^b   Dubuisson, Philippe ^a   Ducos, Fabrice ^a   Parol, Frédéric ^a   Riédi, Jérôme ^a   Vanbauce, Claudine ^a  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud parameterizations; Cloud retrieval; Clouds; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; CLOUD LAYERS; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD PRESSURE; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CLOUD STRUCTURE; LIQUID CLOUD; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OXYGEN A-BAND; OXYGEN PRESSURE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE PLATFORMS; STANDARD DEVIATION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; OXYGEN; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIDAR; PARAMETERIZATION; POLDER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 78651073021     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2550.1     Document Type: Article

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