The CloudSat radar-lidar geometrical profile product (RL-GeoProf): Updates, improvements, and selected results

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 9441-9462

  Mace, Gerald G ^a   Zhang, Qiuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

CALIPSO LIDARS; LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; THERMAL CONTRASTS; UNDERLYING SURFACE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84906674606     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021374     Document Type: Article

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