Diurnal variations of cloud activity in Bangladesh and north of the Bay of Bengal in 2000

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 378-388

  Islam, Md Nazrul ^a   Hayashi, Taiichi ^b   Uyeda, Hiroshi ^c   Terao, Toru ^d   Kikuchi, Katsuhiro ^e  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Frequency of occurrence; Precipitation; Radar; Satellite

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DIURNAL CYCLE;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUD COVER; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; BAY OF BENGAL; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 1842588311     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.01.011     Document Type: Article

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