The seasonal variation of cloud parameters over Central Europe: A fuzzy approach for the analysis of NOAA-APT data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-152

  Gjertsen, Uta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY LOGIC; NOAA; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EUROPE, (CENTRAL);

EID: 0031420310     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8095(97)00023-9     Document Type: Article

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