A global survey of cloud overlap based on CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 519-536

  Li, J ^a   Huang, J ^a   Stamnes, K ^b   Wang, T ^a   Lv, Q ^a   Jin, H ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD COVER; CLOUDSAT; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84921416854     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-519-2015     Document Type: Article

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