An approach for improving cirrus cloud-top pressure/Height estimation by merging high-spatial-resolution infrared-window imager data with high-spectral-resolution sounder data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1477-1488

  Weisz, Elisabeth ^a   Paul Menzel, W ^a   Smith, Nadia ^a   Frey, Richard ^a   Borbas, Eva E ^a   Baum, Bryan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; Cloud retrieval; Regression analysis; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CALIPSO; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD ALTITUDES; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CROSS-TRACK INFRARED SOUNDER; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; ICE CLOUDS; IMAGER BANDS; IMAGER DATA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION RELATIONSHIP; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL BAND; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUDS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; MERGING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

AIRS; CALIPSO; CIRRUS; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84868126420     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0170.1     Document Type: Article

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