Diurnal evolution of cloud base heights in convective cloud fields from MSG/SEVIRI data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1767-1778

  Meerkotter R ^a   Bugliaro, L ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; METEOSAT; NOAA SATELLITE; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

GERMANY;

EID: 76149138193     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-1767-2009     Document Type: Article

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