The impact of horizontal heterogeneities, cloud fraction, and liquid water path on warm cloud effective radii from CERES-like Aqua MODIS retrievals

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 9997-10003

  Painemal, D ^a   Minnis, P ^a   Sun Mack, S ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HETEROGENEITY; MODIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84885663664     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-9997-2013     Document Type: Article

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