Cloud coverage in the joint OSSE nature run

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1863-1871

  McCarty, Will ^a   Errico, Ronald M ^a,b   Gelaro, Ronald ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Model evaluation performance; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVERAGE; CLOUD EFFECTS; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUDSAT; DATA SETS; GEOMETRIC PROFILE; GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED RADIATION SOUNDERS; MODEL EVALUATION; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VALIDATION DATA; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WISCONSIN;

CLIMATOLOGY; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL RADAR;

EXPERIMENTS;

CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUDSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84864829971     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00131.1     Document Type: Article

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