Cloud type comparisons of AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO cloud height and amount

Cloud type comparisons of AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO cloud height and amount

1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA 2 Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 3 Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 4 Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 5 Department of Atmospheric Science, University of ...

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AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO clouds

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