CERES edition-2 cloud property retrievals using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS data-Part II: Examples of average results and comparisons with other data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 11 PART 2, 2011, Pages 4401-4430

  Minnis, Patrick ^a   Sun Mack, Szedung ^b   Chen, Yan ^b   Khaiyer, Mandana M ^b   Yi, Yuhong ^b   Ayers, J Kirk ^b   Brown, Ricky R ^b   Dong, Xiquan ^c   Gibson, Sharon C ^b   Heck, Patrick W ^d   Lin, Bing ^a   Nordeen, Michele L ^b   Nguyen, Louis ^a   Palikonda, Rabindra ^b   Smith Jr , William L ^a   Spangenberg, Douglas A ^b   Trepte, Qing Z ^b   Xi, Baike ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; cloud; cloud remote sensing; Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLOUD REMOTE SENSING; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; VISIBLE AND INFRARED SCANNERS;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); ICE; LIQUIDS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCANNING; SPECTROMETERS;

RADIOMETERS;

ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROPLET; ICE COVER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRA (SATELLITE); TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRMM;

EID: 80455174757     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2144602     Document Type: Article

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