Quality assessment of cloud-top height estimates from satellite IR radiances using the CALIPSO lidar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2454-2464

  Di Michele, Sabatino ^a   McNally, Tony ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a   Genkova, Iliana ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clouds; laser radar; meteorology

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS; CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HEIGHT ASSIGNMENTS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

CLOUDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED DEVICES; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

AIRS; CALIPSO; DATA ASSIMILATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIDAR; METEOSAT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADIANCE;

EID: 84875713056     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2210721     Document Type: Article

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