Assessing the performance of the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) using Deep Convective Clouds

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 135-136, Issue , 2014, Pages 397-403

  Buechler, Dennis E ^a   Koshak, William J ^b   Christian, Hugh J ^a   Goodman, Steven J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep convective clouds; GLM; Lightning; LIS; TRMM; Vicarious satellite calibration

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND IMAGE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; GLM; LIGHTNING IMAGING SENSORS; LIGHTNING MAPPER; LIS; TRMM;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

LIGHTNING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GOES; LIGHTNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; TRMM;

EID: 84889573023     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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