Complementary use of passive and active remote sensing for detection of penetrating convection from CloudSat, CALIPSO, and Aqua MODIS

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Young, Alisa H ^a   Bates, John J ^a   Curry, Judith A ^b  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE;

AQUA MODIS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIPSO; CLOUDSAT; CO-LOCATED; COLD CLOUDS; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; GEOLOCATIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTISENSORY; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

RADIOMETERS;

AQUA (SATELLITE); ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIPSO; CLOUDSAT; INFRARED IMAGERY; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864069866     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016749     Document Type: Article

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