Resolving ice cloud optical thickness biases between CALIOP and MODIS using infrared retrievals

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 5075-5090

  Holz, Robert E ^a   Platnick, Steven ^b   Meyer, Kerry ^c   Vaughan, Mark ^d   Heidinger, Andrew ^e   Yang, Ping ^f   Wind, Gala ^g   Dutcher, Steven ^a   Ackerman, Steven ^a   Amarasinghe, Nandana ^g   Nagle, Fredrick ^a   Wang, Chenxi ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALIOP; CIRRUS; CLOUD; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84966359582     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016     Document Type: Article

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