Spatial scales of altocumulus clouds observed with collocated CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 148, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-69

  Zhang, Damao ^a   Luo, Tao ^a   Liu, Dong ^b   Wang, Zhien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Altocumulus clouds; Calipso and cloudSat; Horizontal scale and vertical depth

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GRID RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL SCALE AND VERTICAL DEPTH; MODEL SIMULATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; VERTICAL EXTENSION;

CLIMATE MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR;

CALIPSO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUDSAT; CUMULUS; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY;

EID: 84902459340     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.05.023     Document Type: Article

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