Cloud climatology in the Canary Islands region using NOAA-AVHRR data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6745, Issue , 2008, Pages

  González, Albano ^a   Cerdeña, Abidán ^a   Pérez, Juan C ^a   Díaz, Ana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud climatology; Cloud properties retrieval

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD PROPERTIES RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL THICKNESS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 41849127080     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.737551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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