Global weather states and their properties from passive and active satellite cloud retrievals

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7734-7746

  Tselioudis, George ^a,b   Rossow, William ^c   Zhang, Yuanchong ^a   Konsta, Dimitra ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate classification regimes; Cloud radiative effects; Cloud retrieval; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION/REGIMES; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CLOUDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

CALIPSO; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDSAT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84884916054     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00024.1     Document Type: Article

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