Discrimination and validation of clouds and dust aerosol layers over the Sahara Desert with combined CALIOP and IIR measurements

Journal of Meteorological Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 185-198

  Liu, Jingjing ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Huang, Jianping ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CALIPSO; CLIM; Dust detection

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; CALIOP; CALIPSO; CLOUD; CLOUDSAT; DUST; MODIS;

SAHARA;

EID: 84921921497     PISSN: 20956037     EISSN: 21980934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-014-3051-5     Document Type: Article

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