Global distribution of cloud top height as retrieved from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT Spaceborne observations

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 836-844

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander ^a   Vountas, Marco ^a   Burrows, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clouds; Radiative transfer; Reflectance spectra; SCIAMACHY

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL AVERAGE; ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; CLOUD ALTITUDES; CLOUD TOP HEIGHT RETRIEVAL; CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS; ENVISAT; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; GLOBAL CLOUDS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN A-BAND; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; REFLECTANCE SPECTRA; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CHARTOGRAPHY; SCIAMACHY; SCIAMACHY MEASUREMENT; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SPACEBORNE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SPECTROMETERS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 80052500563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3050836     Document Type: Article

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