Intercomparisons of cloud-top and cloud-base heights from ground-based Lidar, CloudSat and CALIPSO measurements

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1179-1197

  Kim, Sang Woo ^a   Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Yoon, Soon Chang ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^a   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD PROFILING RADAR; CLOUD VERTICAL STRUCTURE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; GROUND-BASED LIDARS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; TROPOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

CALIPSO; CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; CLOUDSAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 79952373595     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160903527439     Document Type: Article

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