Cloud base and top heights in the Hawaiian region determined with satellite and ground-based measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Chunxi ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Lauer, Axel ^a   Hamilton, Kevin ^a   Xie, Feiqin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Los Angeles   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; RAIN;

CALIPSO; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLOUD BASE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HEAVY RAINS; IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATES; RAINFALL INTENSITY; REFERENCE STATE; TRADE WINDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; CALIPSO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD; DATA SET; IONOSPHERE; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84865526806     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052355     Document Type: Article

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