Technical note: A new day- and night-time Meteosat Second Generation Cirrus Detection Algorithm MeCiDA

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 6145-6159

  Krebs, W ^a   Mannstein, H ^a   Bugliaro, L ^a   Mayer, B ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; DIURNAL VARIATION; METEOSAT; MODIS; OPTIMIZATION; PIXEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 37249035064     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-6145-2007     Document Type: Article

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