Clear-sky mask for the advanced clear-sky processor for oceans

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1609-1623

  Petrenko, B ^a   Ignatov, A ^a   Kihai, Y ^a,b   Heidinger, A ^c  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Perot Systems Government Services   (United States)

^c NOAA National Environmental Satellite   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Radiances; Radiative transfer; Satellite observations; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLAVR-X; CLOUD EFFECTS; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIANCES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; REYNOLDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL UNIFORMITY; SST ANOMALIES; TEMPORAL CONSISTENCY; TIME OF PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; PIXELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLEAR SKY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77958493109     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1413.1     Document Type: Article

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