Automated cloud screening algorithm for MFRSR data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Alexandrov, Mikhail D ^a   Marshak, Alexander ^b   Cairns, Brian ^a   Lacis, Andrew A ^c   Carlson, Barbara E ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

BEAM MEASUREMENT; CLOUD SCREENING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; OPTICAL THICKNESS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; CLOUD COVER; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOMETER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2542487292     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019105     Document Type: Article

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