Combined satellite and radar retrievals of drop concentration and CCN at convective cloud base

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3259-3265

  Rosenfeld, Daniel ^a   Fischman, Baruch ^a   Zheng, Youtong ^a,b   Goren, Tom ^a   Giguzin, David ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud aerosol interactions

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DROPS; RADAR; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEMS; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DROP CONCENTRATIONS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84901934036     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059453     Document Type: Article

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