Assessment of aircraft icing potential and maximum icing altitude from geostationary meteorological satellite data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 160-174

  Ellrod, Gary P ^a,b   Bailey, Andrew A ^c  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Raytheon Information Solutions ^*  (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INTERNET; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AIRCRAFT ICING; CURRENT ICING CONDITIONS; GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE DATA;

METEOROLOGY;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALTITUDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOAA SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947262095     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF984.1     Document Type: Article

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