SATELLITES AND SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING | Remote Sensing Cloud Properties Chapter uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Clouds constitute a unique and important component of the atmosphere. This article briefly reviews the methods of inferring cloud-top height, determining cloud thermodynamic phase, and retrieving cloud microphysical and optical properties (specifically, the effective particle size and optical thickness). Some examples based on observations made by a passive spaceborne sensor (the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and an active spaceborne sensor (the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) are illustrated.

author list (cited authors)

  • Yang, P., & Baum, B. A.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Yang, P||Baum, BA

editor list (cited editors)

  • Pyle, J., & Zhang, F.

Book Title

  • Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences

publication date

  • January 2015