An innovative satellite mission concept to measure the effects of aerosols on clouds and climate

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 685-694

  Rennó, Nilton O ^a   Williams, Earle ^b   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^c   Fischer, David G ^d   Fischer, Jürgen ^e   Kremic, Tibor ^d   Agr Awal, Arun ^a   Andreae, Meinrat O ^f   Bierbaum, Rosina ^a   Blakeslee, Richard ^g   Boerner, Anko ^h   Bowles, Neil ⁱ   Christian, Hugh ^j   Cox, Ann ^k   Dunion, Jason ^l   Horvath, Akos ^m   Huang, Xianglei ^a   Khain, Alexander ^c   Kinne, Stefan ^m   Lemos, Maria C ^a   Penner, Joyce E ^a   Pöschl, Ulrich ^f   Quaas, Johannes ⁿ   Seran, Elena ^o   Stevens, Bjorn ^m   Walati, Thomas ^h   Wagner, Thomas ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^k NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^o SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^p UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHASER SATELLITES; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD PROFILERS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; EARTH SCIENCE MISSIONS; LIGHTNING FLASHES; SATELLITE MISSION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

NASA; SATELLITES; SURVEYS; THUNDERSTORMS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84878714796     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00239.1     Document Type: Article

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