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A method for estimating vertical distribution of the SAGE II opaque cloud frequency
Author(s) -
Wang PiHuan,
McCormick M. Patrick,
Minnis Patrick,
Kent Geoffrey S.,
Yue Glenn K.,
Skeens Kristi M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/94gl02992
Subject(s) - sage , opacity , cloud computing , environmental science , meteorology , aerosol , atmospheric sciences , geology , optics , geography , physics , computer science , nuclear physics , operating system
A method is developed to infer the vertical distribution of the occurrence frequency of clouds that are opaque to the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) II instrument. An application of the method to the 1986 SAGE II observations is included in this paper. The 1986 SAGE II results are compared with the 1952–1981 cloud climatology of Warren et al. [1986, 1988].