Statistical properties of horizontally oriented plates in optically thick clouds from satellite observations

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 986-990

  Zhou, Chen ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Dessler, Andrew E ^a   Liang, Faming ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO); ice cloud particles; ice crystal orientation; radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; HORIZONTALLY ORIENTED PLATES; ICE CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS; JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; DEPOLARIZATION; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ICE;

EID: 84879980477     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2227451     Document Type: Article

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