cloud top height


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cloud top height

The maximal altitude to which a nuclear mushroom cloud rises.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Liu, "Comparison of AIRS, MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO cloud top height retrievals," Geophysical Research Letters, vol.
Cloud Base Height Estimation from ISCCP Cloud-Type Classification Applied to A-Train Data
Radar showed multilayer clouds characterized by cloud top heights from 1.5 to ~8 km, although, the clear-sky conditions still remained on the downwind side of the mountain ridge (Figure 4).
Observations of Unexpected Short-Term Heating in the Uppermost Layer of the Dead Sea after a Sharp Decrease in Solar Radiation
Yost, 2010b: Evaluation of satellite-based upper troposphere cloud top height retrievals in multilayer cloud conditions during TC4.
Arctic radiation-icebridge sea and ice experiment: the arctic radiant energy system during the critical seasonal ice transition
(d) Cross- section of data from the CALIOP instrument; left-hand y-axis shows the tropopause height (black dots) and the cloud top height (blue and cyan dots; cyan for overshooting cloud top) and the right-hand y-axis shows the integrated attenuated backscatter coefficients in the top cloud layer (red dots, [sr.sup.-1] x [km.sup.-1]).
Composition and Thermal Structure of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere in a Penetrating Mesoscale Convective Complex Determined by Satellite Observations and Model Simulations
Figure 6(c) shows the temporal trend of mean cloud top height is plotted for each rain type.
Overall, for convective clouds along the Changma front, the rain intensity is much stronger and the cloud top height is much higher than during any other JJA period (Figures 8 and 9).
Precipitating Cloud Characteristics during Changma as Seen in TRMM PR Observations
Kawasaki, 2001: A survey of thunderstorm flash rates compared to cloud top height using TRMM satellite data.
Characteristics of thunderstorms that produce terrestrial gamma ray flashes: NEXRAD-enhanced echo-top data show that 24 terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGF) detected with the Fermi Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) are consistently adjacent to high-altitude regions of storms
Equation (12) is [[tau].sub.c] = (8/5)[([pi]k).sup.2]([[rho].sub.w]/[lambda])[N.sup.2.sub.c][r.sub.e][(H).sup.5] and (13) is [[tau].sub.c] = (9/5)[[rho].sup.-1.sub.w] (W/[r.sub.e](H)), where [[rho].sub.w] is the density of liquid water (1.0 x [10.sup.6] g [m.sup.-3]), A is the adiabatic parameter (set at 2.0 x [10.sup.-3] g [m.sup.-4]), and H is the cloud top height. The air mass factor k in (12) is set to 0.67 over land and 0.80 over the ocean and hence the curved lines of cloud droplet number concentration over land and ocean follow different paths.
Maritime-continental contrasts in the properties of low-level clouds: a case study of the summer of the 2003 Yamase, Japan, cloud event
Khaiyer, 2008: An evaluation of operational GOES-derived single-layer cloud top heights with ARSCL data over the ARM Southern Great Plains site.
Ceres S'COOL Project update: the evolution and value of a long-running education project with a foundation in NASA earth science missions
Cloud base and cloud top heights were derived from frequency modulated continuous millimeter wave cloud radar (FMCW); a threshold radar reflectivity of -15 dBZ was used for selection of nonprecipitating clouds.
Assessment and validation of i-skyradiometer retrievals using broadband flux and MODIS data
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