A self-consistent scattering model for cirrus. II: The high and low frequencies

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 680, 2014, Pages 1039-1057

  Baran, Anthony J ^a   Cotton, Richard ^a   Furtado, Kalli ^a   Havemann, Stephan ^a   Labonnote, Laurent C ^b   Marenco, Franco ^a   Smith, Andrew ^a   Thelen, Jean Claude ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate; Electromagnetic spectrum; Ensemble model; Ice crystals; Microwave; Radar; Remote sensing; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ESTIMATION; ICE; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHYSICS; RADAR; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; ENSEMBLE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; ICE CRYSTALS; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84899474616     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2193     Document Type: Article

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