Radiative and microphysical properties of cirrus cloud inferred from infrared measurements made by the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS). Part I: Retrieval method

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1297-1316

  Iwabuchi, Hironobu ^a   Yamada, Soichiro ^a   Katagiri, Shuichiro ^a   Yang, Ping ^b   Okamoto, Hajime ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEMIANALYTICAL EQUATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

RADIOMETERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; MODIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84894484277     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0215.1     Document Type: Article

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