Synergetic use of MODIS cloud parameters for distinguishing high aerosol loadings from clouds over the North China plain

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4879-4886

  Shang, Huazhe ^a,b   Chen, Liangfu ^a   Tao, Jinhua ^a   Su, Lin ^a   Jia, Songlin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Algorithms; Clouds; Identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL CHARACTERISTICS; AEROSOL DISTRIBUTION; CLOUD MASK PRODUCTS; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; CLOUD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHYSICAL PROPERTY;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 85027941742     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2332427     Document Type: Article

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