Determining the flight icing threat to aircraft with single-layer cloud parameters derived from operational satellite data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1794-1810

  Smith, William L ^a   minnis, Patrick ^a   Fleeger, Cecilia ^b   Spangenberg, Douglas ^b   Palikonda, Rabindra ^b   Nguyen, Louis ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Cloud retrieval; Icing; Nowcasting; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PILOTS; ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CLOUD-TOP TEMPERATURES; DROPLET SIZES; FREEZING LEVELS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; ICING; ICING CONDITIONS; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SINGLE LAYER; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TROPOSPHERIC AIRBORNE METEOROLOGICAL DATA REPORTING;

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGY; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

AIRCRAFT;

AERIAL SURVEY; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROPLET; EOS; ICE RETREAT; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872156820     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-057.1     Document Type: Article

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