A new AVHRR cloud climatology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5658, Issue , 2005, Pages 197-205

  Heidinger, Andrew K ^a,b   Goldberg, Mitch D ^a   Tarpley, Dan ^a   Jelenak, Aleksandar ^a,c   Pavolonis, Michael ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c IMSG Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Meteorology; Remote sensing; Satellites

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS (ORA); POLAR ORBITING ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES (POES); SURFACE PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 20344394664     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.579047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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