Estimating cloud optical thickness and associated surface UV irradiance from SEVIRI by implementing a semi-analytical cloud retrieval algorithm

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 7961-7975

  Pandey, P ^a,b   De Ridder, K ^a   Gillotay, D ^c   Van Lipzig, N P M ^b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDSAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; IRRADIANCE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVIRI; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84869068658     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-7961-2012     Document Type: Article

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