A study of subvisual clouds and their radiation effect with a synergy of CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO, and AIRS data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Wenbo ^a,b   Videen, Gorden ^c   Kato, Seiji ^b   Lin, Bing ^b   Lukashin, Constantine ^b   Hu, Yongxiang ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; AIRS DATA; CALIPSO; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD LAYERS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; COOLING EFFECTS; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; MODEL RESULTS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPTICAL THICKNESS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RADIATION FLUXES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SHORT WAVES; SUBVISUAL; SYNERGISTIC MANNER; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

CLOUDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CALIPSO; CIRRUS; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; POLARIZATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 81755184731     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016422     Document Type: Article

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