Improving satellite-based convective cloud growth monitoring with visible optical depth retrievals

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 506-520

  Sieglaff, Justin M ^a   Cronce, Lee M ^a   Feltz, Wayne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud retrieval; Convective storms; Nowcasting; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CONVECTIVE STORMS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; NOWCASTING; OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVALS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COOLING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; STORMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GOES; NOWCASTING; OPTICAL DEPTH; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84897623342     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0139.1     Document Type: Article

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