A 19-month record of marine aerosol-cloud-radiation properties derived from DOE ARM mobile facility deployment at the Azores. Part I: Cloud fraction and single-layered MBL cloud properties

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3665-3682

  Dong, Xiquan ^a   Xi, Baike ^a   Kennedy, Aaron ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^b   Wood, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DROPS; OPTICAL RADAR; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL RETRIEVALS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; TRANSITION EXPERIMENT;

RADIOMETRY;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT;

AZORES; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84900432381     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00553.1     Document Type: Article

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