CLAAS: The CM SAF cloud property data set using SEVIRI

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4297-4311

  Stengel, M S ^a   Kniffka, A K ^a   Meirink, J F M ^b   Lockhoff, M L ^a   Tan, J T ^a   Hollmann, R H ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA SET; METEOSAT; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SEVIRI; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84899748847     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-4297-2014     Document Type: Article

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