The Characteristics of Ice Cloud Properties Derived from CloudSat and CALIPSO Measurements
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Arctic cloud macrophysical characteristics from CloudSat and CALIPSO
a r t i c l e i n f o The lidar and radar profiling capabilities of the CloudSat and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder (CALIPSO) satellites provide opportunities to improve the characterization of cloud properties. An Arctic cloud climatology based on their observations may be fundamentally different from earlier Arctic cloud climatologies based on passive satellite observations, whic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Climate
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0894-8755,1520-0442
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-14-00666.1