Monitoring and automatic detection of the cold-ring patterns atop deep convective clouds using Meteosat data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 123, Issue , 2013, Pages 281-292

  Žibert, Mateja Iršič ^a   Žibert, Janez ^b  

^a Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Automatic detection algorithm; Cold ring shape; Cold U V shape; Deep convective storm; Meteosat second generation; Storm top

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION ALGORITHMS; COLD RING SHAPE; COLD U/V SHAPE; CONVECTIVE STORMS; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; TEMPERATURE;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATABASE; DETECTION METHOD; INFRARED IMAGERY; METEOSAT; MONITORING SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVIRI; THUNDERSTORM; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

AUSTRIA; CROATIA; HUNGARY; ITALY; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84874379771     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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