Cloud and precipitation classification for a depression system approaching the south Balkan Peninsula. A case study of 26 March 1998

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4471-4490

  Anthis, A I ^a   Cracknell, A P ^b  

^a Regional Meteorological Center   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SATELLITES; THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHERING;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; RAINFALL WEATHER SITUATION;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; METEOSAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BALKANS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 8744229976     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160410001709057     Document Type: Article

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