Dust detection and optical depth retrieval using MSG-SEVIRI data

Atmosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-47

  Romano, Filomena ^a   Ricciardelli, Elisabetta ^a   Cimini, Domenico ^a   Di Paola, Francesco ^a   Viggiano, Mariassunta ^a  

^a Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dust detection; Dust optical depth; MSG; SEVIRI

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS;

AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; DUST DETECTION; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MSG; OPTICAL DEPTH; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SEVIRI;

DUST;

ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); DETECTION METHOD; DUST; DUST STORM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; METEOSAT; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SEVIRI; TERRA (SATELLITE);

EID: 84885086763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos4010035     Document Type: Article

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