Assimilating remotely sensed cloud optical thickness into a mesoscale model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 10269-10281

  Lauwaet, D ^a,b   De Ridder, K ^b   Pandey, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; PARIS; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 80054729735     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-10269-2011     Document Type: Article

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