Contrail observations over Southern and Eastern Asia in NOAA/AVHRR data and comparisons to contrail simulations in a GCM

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2049-2069

  Meyer, R ^a   Buell, R ^b   Leiter, C ^c   Mannstein, H ^b   Pechtl, S ^b,d   Oki, T ^e   Wendling, P ^a  

^a SunTechnics GmbH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Science + Computing Ag   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ALGORITHMS; JAPAN; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

CONTRAIL DETECTION ALGORITHM; CONTRAIL FREQUENCIES;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLOUD COVER; CONTRAIL; DETECTION METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NOAA SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 34249287926     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600641707     Document Type: Article

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