Cloud detection and analysis on the Tibetan Plateau using Meteosat and CloudSat

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 10,082-10,099

  Rüthrich, Frank ^a   Thies, Boris ^a   Reudenbach, Christoph ^a   Bendix, Jörg ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

climatology; cloud retrieval; CloudSat; dynamic; Meteosat; Tibet

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORMS;

CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CLOUDSAT; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; METEOSAT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIBET;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD COVER; CLOUDSAT; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DIURNAL VARIATION; METEOSAT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84886054674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50790     Document Type: Article

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