Linear relation between convective cloud base height and updrafts and application to satellite retrievals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6485-6491

  Zheng, Youtong ^a,b   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

cloud base updrafts; satellite retrieval

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD BASE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; RMSE (ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR); SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER LIDAR; DOPPLER RADAR; HEIGHT; LINEARITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UPDRAFT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMAZONIA; CALIFORNIA; GREAT PLAINS; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HONOLULU; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; OAHU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940447702     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064809     Document Type: Article

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