Phenomenological description of tropical clouds using cloudsat cloud classification

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3235-3249

  Behrangi, Ali ^a   Kubar, Terry ^a   Lambrigtsen, Bjorn ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Cloud cover; Clouds; Convective clouds; Radars Radar observations; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD TYPES; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CUMULUS CLOUD; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DIURNAL CYCLE; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PEAK FRACTION; PHENOMENOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SHARP INCREASE; TROPICAL CLOUDS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NATURAL CONVECTION; OPTICAL RADAR; OVERPASSES; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CALIPSO; CLOUDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 84867935570     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00247.1     Document Type: Article

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