Comparison of airborne in situ, airborne radar-lidar, and spaceborne radar-lidar retrievals of polar ice cloud properties sampled during the POLARCAT campaign

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-73

  Delanoë, Julien ^a   Protat, Alain ^b   Jourdan, Olivier ^c   Pelon, Jacques ^a   Papazzoni, Mathieu ^a   Dupuy, Régis ^c   Gayet, Jean Francois ^c   Jouan, Caroline ^a  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Cloud retrieval; Lidars Lidar observations; Radars Radar observations; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; LIDARS/LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT MODELS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CALIPSO; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ICE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871378006     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00200.1     Document Type: Article

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