Relationship between aerosol and cloud fraction over Australia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Small, Jennifer D ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Su, Hui ^a   Zhai, Chengxing ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DYNAMICS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL TYPES; AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS-BURNING; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD TYPES; DYNAMIC REGIMES; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NCEP REANALYSIS; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; BIOMASS BURNING; CLOUD; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FRACTIONATION; METEOROLOGY; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 82955184570     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049404     Document Type: Article

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