Long-Term Retrievals of Cloud Type and Fair-Weather Shallow Cumulus Events at the ARM SGP Site

Sunny Lim, Kyo-Sun; Riihimaki, Laura D.; Shi, Yan; Flynn, Donna; Kleiss, Jessica M.; Berg, Larry K.; Gustafson Jr., William I.; Zhang, Yunyan; Johnson, Karen L.

doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0215.1

Title: Long-Term Retrievals of Cloud Type and Fair-Weather Shallow Cumulus Events at the ARM SGP Site

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Sunny Lim, Kyo-Sun ^[1]; Riihimaki, Laura D. ^[2]; Shi, Yan ^[2]; Flynn, Donna ^[2]; Kleiss, Jessica M. ^[3]; Berg, Larry K. ^[2]; Gustafson Jr., William I. ^[2]; Zhang, Yunyan ^[4]; Johnson, Karen L. ^[5]

School of Earth System Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York

Publication Date:: Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1571678

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1574118; OSTI ID: 1597596; OSTI ID: 1642459

Report Number(s):: BNL-212315-2019-JAAM; LLNL-JRNL-785323; PNNL-SA-146401
Journal ID: ISSN 0739-0572

Grant/Contract Number:: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Research Facility; Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Research; Atmosperic Radiation Measurement Research; Atmospheric System Research; SC0012704; AC05-76RL01830; 2019R1C1C1008482; AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Journal Volume: 36 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0739-0572

Publisher:: American Meteorological Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; North America; Clouds; Cumulus clouds; Algorithms; Cloud retrieval; Remote sensing

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                    Sunny Lim, Kyo-Sun, Riihimaki, Laura D., Shi, Yan, Flynn, Donna, Kleiss, Jessica M., Berg, Larry K., Gustafson Jr., William I., Zhang, Yunyan, and Johnson, Karen L. Long-Term Retrievals of Cloud Type and Fair-Weather Shallow Cumulus Events at the ARM SGP Site.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
Web.  doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0215.1.

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                    Sunny Lim, Kyo-Sun, Riihimaki, Laura D., Shi, Yan, Flynn, Donna, Kleiss, Jessica M., Berg, Larry K., Gustafson Jr., William I., Zhang, Yunyan, & Johnson, Karen L. Long-Term Retrievals of Cloud Type and Fair-Weather Shallow Cumulus Events at the ARM SGP Site.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0215.1

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                    Sunny Lim, Kyo-Sun, Riihimaki, Laura D., Shi, Yan, Flynn, Donna, Kleiss, Jessica M., Berg, Larry K., Gustafson Jr., William I., Zhang, Yunyan, and Johnson, Karen L. Thu .  
"Long-Term Retrievals of Cloud Type and Fair-Weather Shallow Cumulus Events at the ARM SGP Site".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0215.1.

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  title        = {Long-Term Retrievals of Cloud Type and Fair-Weather Shallow Cumulus Events at the ARM SGP Site},

  author       = {Sunny Lim, Kyo-Sun and Riihimaki, Laura D. and Shi, Yan and Flynn, Donna and Kleiss, Jessica M. and Berg, Larry K. and Gustafson Jr., William I. and Zhang, Yunyan and Johnson, Karen L.},

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  journal      = {Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology},

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  volume       = 36,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2019},

  month        = {Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2019}

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