Retrieval of subvisual cirrus cloud optical thickness from limb-scatter measurements

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 105-119

  Wiensz, J T ^a,b   Degenstein, D A ^a   Lloyd, N D ^a   Bourassa, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; OSIRIS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING;

EID: 84873864077     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-105-2013     Document Type: Article

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