The earthcare satellite : The next step forward in global measurements of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and radiation

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1311-1332

  Illingworth, A J ^a   Barker, H W ^b   Beljaars, A ^c   Ceccaldi, M ^d   Chepfer, H ^e   Clerbaux, N ^f   Cole, J ^b   Delanoe J ^d   Domenech, C ^g   Donovan, D P ^h   Fukuda, S ⁱ   Hirakata, M ⁱ   Hogan, R J ^a   Huenerbein, A ^j   Kollias, P ^k   Kubota, T ⁱ   Nakajima, T ^l   Nakajima, T Y ^m   Nishizawa, T ⁿ   Ohno, Y ^o   Okamoto, H ^p   Oki, R ⁱ   Sato, K ^p   Satoh, M ^l   Shephard, M W ^b   Velazquez Blazquez A ^f   Wandinger, U ^j   Wehr, T ^q   Van Zadelhoff, G J ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^f ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

ⁱ JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^j LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^m TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^p KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; HEAT RADIATION; OPTICAL RADAR; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOL DISTRIBUTION; CLOUD PROFILING RADARS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDARS; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 84926144540     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00227.1     Document Type: Article

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