Regional apparent boundary layer lapse rates determined from CALIPSO and MODIS data for cloud-height determination

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 990-1011

  Sun Mack, Sunny ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^b   Chen, Yan ^a   Kato, Seiji ^b   Yi, Yuhong ^a   Gibson, Sharon C ^a   Heck, Patrick W ^c   Winker, And David M ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ERRORS; ICE; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SNOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD-TOP TEMPERATURES; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LIDAR; MODIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84897980418     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-081.1     Document Type: Article

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