MODIS cloud-top property refinements for collection 6

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1145-1163

  Baum, Bryan A ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^a   Frey, Richard A ^a   Tobin, David C ^a   Holz, Robert E ^a   Ackerman, Steve A ^a   Heidinger, Andrew K ^b   Yang, Ping ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud retrieval; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM REFINEMENT; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CALIPSO; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD PRODUCTS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETERS; INFRARED BANDS; NEW PARAMETERS; PROPERTY REFINEMENT; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AIRS; ALGORITHM; CALIPSO; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84864915677     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0203.1     Document Type: Article

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