Retrieval of warm cloud optical properties using simple approximations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1317-1325

  Nauss, Thomas ^a   Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud properties; Radiative transfer; Satellite retrieval

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING MEDIA; ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; CLOUD DROPLET RADII; CLOUD OPTICAL PROPERTIES; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CREATIVE COMMONS; FAST COMPUTATION SPEED; FORTRAN; ICE CLOUDS; ICE WATER PATHS; LOOK UP TABLE; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; OPTICAL SATELLITES; PARTICLE ABSORPTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY; REFLECTION FUNCTIONS; RUNTIMES; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; TRANSFER COMPUTATION;

CLOUDS; NASA; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TABLE LOOKUP; WATER ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MODIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 79953220706     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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