Investigating cloud radar sensitivity to optically thin cirrus using collocated Raman lidar observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Borg, Lori A ^a   Holz, Robert E ^a   Turner, David D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; CLOUD LIDAR; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD RADAR; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; IR FLUX; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RAMAN LIDAR; SINGLE LAYER; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; THIN CIRRUS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

CIRRUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LIDAR; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADAR; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 79952640779     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046365     Document Type: Article

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