Advanced infrared sounder subpixel cloud detection with imagers and its impact on radiance assimilation in NWP

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1773-1780

  Wang, Pei ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Li, Jinlong ^a   Li, Zhenglong ^a   Schmit, Timothy J ^b   Bai, Wenguang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

AIRS subpixel cloud detection; data assimilation; Hurricane Sandy; MODIS cloud mask

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); DATA PROCESSING; HURRICANES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CLOUD MASKS; CROSS-TRACK INFRARED SOUNDER; DATA ASSIMILATION; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SUB PIXELS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

AIRS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; HURRICANE SANDY 2012; IMAGERY; INTERPOLATION; METOP; MODIS; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VIIRS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84895155606     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059067     Document Type: Article

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