Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using multispectral satellite data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5031-5036

  Nauss, T ^a   Kokhanovsky, A A ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPLET; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 33750562770     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-5031-2006     Document Type: Article

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