A three-year climatology of cloud-top phase over the Southern Ocean and North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2405-2418

  Morrison, Anthony E ^a   Siems, Steven T ^a   Manton, Michael J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climatology; Clouds; North Pacific Ocean; Radiances; Satellite observations; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO EFFECTS; AUSTRALIA; BERING SEA; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GULF OF ALASKA; IN-SITU; LEVEL 2; LOW-ALTITUDE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIANCES; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; REMOTELY-SENSED OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPACE-BASED SENSORS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUID WATER; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TERRA SATELLITES; WARM LIQUID;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPERCOOLING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LIDAR; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUMMER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79958167183     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3842.1     Document Type: Article

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