Categorization of cold period weather types in Greece on the basis of the photointerpretation of NOAA/AVHRR imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2951-2977

  Cartalis, C ^a   Chrysoulakis, N ^b   Feidas, H ^c   Pitsitakis, N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d Hellenic Natl Meteorol Service   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MONITORING; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

CLOUD PATTERNS; MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

PHOTOINTERPRETATION;

AVHRR; CLOUD; COLD AIR; NOAA SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3242787977     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001632684     Document Type: Article

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