Airborne remote sensing of cloud radiative smoothing during the Baltex Bridge Cloud campaign

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 107-127

  Schröder, Marc ^a   Bennartz, Ralf ^b   Fischer, Jürgen ^a   Ruhtz, Thomas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas absorption; Multilayered clouds; Power spectrum; Radiative smoothing; Surface albedo

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAS ABSORPTION; MORPHOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

BALTEX BRIDGE CLOUD (BBC); PHOTON TRANSPORT; RADIANCE MEASUREMENTS; RADIATIVE SMOOTHING;

CLOUDS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALBEDO; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 8444227704     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.03.011     Document Type: Article

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