Single aircraft integration of remote sensing and in situ sampling for the study of cloud microphysics and dynamics

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 653-668

  Wang, Zhien ^a   French, Jeffrey ^a   Vali, Gabor ^a   Wechsler, Perry ^a   Haimov, Samuel ^a   Rodi, Alfred ^a   Deng, Min ^a   Leon, Dave ^a   Snider, Jeff ^a   Peng, Liran ^a   Pazmany, Andrew L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b ProSensing Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; WYOMING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84861419233     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00044.1     Document Type: Article

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