Observing ice clouds in the submillimeter spectral range: The CloudIce mission proposal for ESA's Earth Explorer 8

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1529-1549

  Buehler, S A ^a   Defer, E ^b   Evans, F ^c   Eliasson, S ^a   Mendrok, J ^a   Eriksson, P ^d   Lee, C ^e   Jimenez C ^b   Prigent, C ^b   Crewell, S ^f   Kasai, Y ^g   Bennartz, R ^h   Gasiewski, A J ⁱ  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DATA SET; ICE CAP; PARTICLE SIZE; SENSOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865781709     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-1529-2012     Document Type: Article

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