Frequency and causes of failed MODIS cloud property retrievals for liquid phase clouds over global oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4132-4154

  Cho, Hyoun Myoung ^a   Zhang, Zhibo ^a,b   Meyer, Kerry ^c,d   Lebsock, Matthew ^e   Platnick, Steven ^c   Ackerman, Andrew S ^f   Di Girolamo, Larry ^g   Labonnote, Laurent C ^h   Cornet, Céline ^h   Riedi, Jerome ^h   Holz, Robert E ⁱ  

^a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h UNIV LILLE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; DRIZZLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL OCEAN; HOMOGENEITY; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 84930384460     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023161     Document Type: Article

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