Cloud ice water content retrieved from the CALIOP space-based lidar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Avery, Melody ^a   Winker, David ^a   Heymsfield, Andrew ^b   Vaughan, Mark ^a   Young, Stuart ^c   Hu, Yongxiang ^a   Trepte, Charles ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; DIAGNOSIS; OPTICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOUD PHYSICS LIDAR; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; FIELD CAMPAIGN; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE WATER CONTENT; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; OPTICAL EXTINCTION; PARAMETERIZED; PROBE MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; SPACE-BASED; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TROPICAL CLOUDS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VOLUME EXTINCTION;

ICE;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CALIPSO; DATA SET; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; PARAMETERIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84863231968     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050545     Document Type: Article

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