Comparison of marine boundary layer cloud properties from CERES-MODIS Edition 4 and DOE ARM AMF measurements at the Azores

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 9509-9529

  Xi, Baike ^a   Dong, Xiquan ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^b   Sun Mack, Sunny ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NASA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

CERES-MODIS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; MICROPHYSICAL RETRIEVAL; VALIDATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84906679498     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021813     Document Type: Article

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