A method of improving cloud predictions for real-time weather forecasting and visualization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4292 LNCS - II, Issue , 2006, Pages 544-553

  Vellore, Ramesh ^a   Koračin, Darko ^a   Wetzel, Melanie ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUDY PIXELS; GLOBAL COVERAGE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; THERMAL STATES;

CLOUDS;

EID: 33845465813     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11919629_55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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