Evaluation of the hydrometeor layers in the East and West Pacific within ISCCP cloud-top pressure-optical depth bins using merged CloudSat and CALIPSO data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9429-9444

  Mace, Gerald G ^a   Wrenn, Forrest J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud retrieval; Clouds; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROFILING RADARS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; RADIATIVE SIGNATURE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BINS; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUDS;

CALIPSO; CLOUDSAT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOCUMULUS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84888067900     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00207.1     Document Type: Article

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