Global statistics of liquid water content and effective number concentration of water clouds over ocean derived from combined CALIPSO and MODIS measurements

This study presents an empirical relation that links the volume extinction coefficients of water clouds, the layer integrated depolarization ratios measured by lidar, and the effective radii of water clouds derived from collocated passive sensor observations. Based on Monte Carlo simulations of CALI...

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Main Authors: Y. Hu, M. Vaughan, C. McClain, M. Behrenfeld, H. Maring, D. Anderson, S. Sun-Mack, D. Flittner, J. Huang, B. Wielicki, P. Minnis, C. Weimer, C. Trepte, R. Kuehn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2007-06-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/3353/2007/acp-7-3353-2007.pdf