Rapid daytime estimation of cloud properties over a large area from radiance distributions

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1237-1250

  Heidinger, Andrew K ^a  

^a NOAA/NESDIS Office of Research/Appl   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CLOUD PROPERTIES;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA PROCESSING; NOAA SATELLITE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0141426693     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<1237:RDEOCP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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