Estimating cloud field coverage using morphological analysis

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bar Or, Rotem Z ^a   Koren, Ilan ^a   Altaratz, Orit ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Cloud; Cloud field; Remote sensing; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CLIMATE STUDIES; CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD FRACTION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER CLOUD MASKS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77950680996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014022     Document Type: Article

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