Research Article

Large-Scale Analysis of Relationships between Mineral Dust, Ice Cloud Properties, and Precipitation from Satellite Observations Using a Bayesian Approach: Theoretical Basis and First Results for the Tropical Atlantic Ocean

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Spatial (a) and temporal (b) correlation lengths for desert dust retrieved from IASI with the IMARS method over the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. IASI observations of the entire hurricane season (JJASON) 2008 are used for the assessment.
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