The Clouds Climate Change Initiative: Assessment of state-of-the-art cloud property retrieval schemes applied to AVHRR heritage measurements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 363-379

  Stengel, M ^a   Mieruch, S ^a,b   Jerg, M ^a   Karlsson, K G ^c   Scheirer, R ^c   Maddux, B ^d   Meirink, J F ^d   Poulsen, C ^e   Siddans, R ^e   Walther, A ^f   Hollmann, R ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

A Train; AVHRR; Cloud retrieval; Inter comparison; MODIS; Satellite; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CLOUDS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIQUIDS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; STATISTICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

A-TRAIN; AVHRR; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; INTERCOMPARISONS; MODIS; VALIDATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84929061517     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.035     Document Type: Article

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