Exploratory use of a satellite cloud mask to verify NWP models

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 197-205

  Crocker, Ric ^a   Mittermaier, Marion ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud observations; Satellite cloud mask; Spatial verification

Indexed keywords

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD MASKS; CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; REGIONAL NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; ROUTINE VERIFICATIONS; SPATIAL VERIFICATIONS; STRUCTURE AMPLITUDE; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

SATELLITES;

CLOUD COVER; INSTRUMENTATION; MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84879031388     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1384     Document Type: Article

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