Use of spaceborne lidar for the evaluation of thin cirrus contamination and screening in the Aqua MODIS Collection 5 aerosol products

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6444-6453

  Huang, Jingfeng ^a,b   Hsu, N Christina ^c   Tsay, Si Chee ^c   Liu, Zhaoyan ^d,e   Jeong, Myeong Jae ^f   Hansell, Richard A ^a,c   Lee, Jaehwa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^f Gangneung Wonju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

aerosol; AQUA MODIS; CALIPSO; cirrus screening; thin cirrus; VFM

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CONTAMINATION; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; AQUA-MODIS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; CALIPSO; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; THIN CIRRUS; VFM;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MODIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIR;

EID: 84880903987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50504     Document Type: Article

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