Evaluating the impact of assimilating CALIOP-derived aerosol extinction profiles on a global mass transport model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Jianglong ^a   Campbell, James R ^b   Reid, Jeffrey S ^b   Westphal, Douglas L ^b   Baker, Nancy L ^b   Campbell, William F ^b   Hyer, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS;

ABSOLUTE ERROR; AERONET; AEROSOL ANALYSIS; AEROSOL EXTINCTION; AEROSOL MASS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; ERROR CORRELATION; GLOBAL AEROSOL; GROUND BASED; LIDAR DATA; MASS TRANSPORT MODEL; MODEL RESPONSE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTIANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; SUN PHOTOMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALIPSO; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MASS TRANSPORT; MISR; MODIS; NADIR; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PHOTOMETER; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 79960549104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047737     Document Type: Article

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