An improved cirrus detection algorithm MeCiDA2 for SEVIRI and its evaluation with MODIS

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 309-322

  Ewald, F ^a,b   Bugliaro, L ^a   Mannstein, H ^a   Mayer, B ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; DETECTION METHOD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; METEOSAT; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEVIRI;

EUROPE;

EID: 84882725994     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-309-2013     Document Type: Article

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