Preliminary Evaluation of Cloud Fraction Simulations by GAMIL2 Using COSP

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 258-263

  Li, Dong ^a   Li Juan, Li ^a   Wen Yu, Huang ^b   Yong, Wang ^a   Bin, Wang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cloud fraction; COSP; GAMIL; satellite simulator

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIDAR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84876442798     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2012.11447002     Document Type: Article

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