Retrieval of cirrus cloud optical depth under day and night conditions from MODIS Collection 6 cloud property data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7257-7271

  Heidinger, Andrew K ^a   Li, Yue ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^b   Holz, Robert E ^b   Platnick, Steven ^c   Yang, Ping ^d  

^a NOAA's Satellite/Information Service   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CALIPSO; Cirrus clouds; Infrared remote sensing; MODIS; Optical depth; Particle size

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIPSO; CIRRUS CLOUDS; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH;

CLOUDS;

EID: 84933544304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607257     Document Type: Article

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