Racoro extended-term aircraft observations of boundary layer clouds

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 861-878

  Vogelmann, Andrew M ^a   McFarquhar, Greg M ^b   Ogren, John A ^c   Turner, David D ^d,e   Comstock, Jennifer M ^f   Feingold, Graham ^c   Long, Charles N ^f   Jonsson, Haflidi H ^g   Bucholtz, Anthony ^h   Collins, Don R ⁱ   Diskin, Glenn S ^j   Gerber, Hermann ^k   Lawson, R Paul ^l   Woods, Roy K ^g   Andrews, Elisabeth ^m   Yang, Hee Jung ^b   Chiu, J Christine ⁿ   Hartsock, Daniel ^o   Hubbe, John M ^f   Lo, Chaomei ^f   Marshak, Alexander ^p   Monroe, Justin W ^o   McFarlane, Sally A ^f   Schmid, Beat ^f   Tomlinson, Jason M ^f   Toto, Tami ^a   more..

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^h NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^k GERBER SCIENTIFIC INC   (United States)

^l SPEC INC   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^p NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLOUD PROCESS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; IN-SITU CHARACTERIZATION; INTER-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SURFACE-BASED;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 84863701863     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00189.1     Document Type: Article

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