Stratus and fog products using GOES-8-9 3.9-μm data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 664-677

  Lee, Thomas F ^a   Joseph Turk, E ^a   Richardson, Kim ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FOG; IMAGE SENSORS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

BISPECTRAL IMAGE SEQUENCES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FOG; GOES; LOW CLOUD; SATELLITE CLOUD; STRATIFORM CLOUD; STRATUS; WEATHER SATELLITE;

EID: 0031225212     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0664:safpug>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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