Discriminating raining from non-raining cloud areas at mid-latitudes using meteosat second generation SEVIRI night-time data

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-230

  Thies, B ^a   Nauss, T ^a   Bendix, J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud properties; MSG SEVIRI; Precipitation detection; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAIN; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MSG SEVIRI; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE DATA; OPERATIONAL RETRIEVALS; SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGER;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DETECTION METHOD; METEOSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 42149109548     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.56     Document Type: Article

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