Low-level cloud motion winds from meteosat high-resolution visible imagery

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 175-184

  Ottenbacher, Andreas ^a   Tomassini, Maria ^b   Holmlund, Kenneth ^c   Schmetz, Johannes ^c,d  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c Europ Organisation Meteorol S   (Germany)

^d EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MOTION; ECMWF; IMAGE RESOLUTION; METEOSAT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VISIBLE IMAGERY; WIND FIELD;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0030669936     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0175:LLCMWF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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