Cloud fraction mediates the aerosol optical depth-cloud top height relationship

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3622-3627

  Gryspeerdt, E ^a   Stier, P ^a   Grandey, B S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

aerosol; aerosol cloud interactions

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; STRONG CORRELATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL DEPTH; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84900934922     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059524     Document Type: Article

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