cloud top height
Automatic cloud top height determination in mountainous areas using a cost-effective time-lapse camera system
... Since cloud forest is present on the slopes of the gorge, the frequency of ground fog will be mapped using satellite data in a future ...the cloud occurrence can be captured unbiasedly by the sampling rate ...
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Evaluating a lightning parameterization based on cloud-top height for mesoscale numerical model simulations
... are utilized (Barth et al., 2012), and Eq. (2) is used instead of Eq. (1) for estimating flash rate. In addition, since a sin- gle storm may often cover multiple model grids, flashes are redistributed to within regions ...
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Global cloud top height retrieval using SCIAMACHY limb spectra: model studies and first results
... detecting cloud tops down to about 5 km and very thin cirrus clouds up to the ...nadir cloud optical thickness (COT) ≥ ...water cloud top height of 5 km is roughly ...passive ...
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Synergy of stereo cloud top height and ORAC optimal estimation cloud retrieval: evaluation and application to AATSR
... type cloud formations, if they have low optical depth, present a challenging cloud form to assign CTH to for both radiometric and geometric type al- ...depth cloud, the cloud top ...
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CloudSat-constrained cloud ice water path and cloud top height retrievals from MHS 157 and 183.3 GHz radiances
... CloudSat cloud cov- erage with a wider swath width because frequent sampling from different operational satellites will allow frequent up- dates of fast-evolving weather phenomena such as hurri- canes and frontal ...
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A development of cloud top height retrieval using thermal infrared spectra observed with GOSAT and comparison with CALIPSO data
... The cloud optical thickness (COT) was defined in the range of ...low cloud detection, the common pair of pseudo-channels was used for observed data analysis because the detection accuracy has few ...
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Comparison of MODIS and VIIRS cloud properties with ARM ground-based observations over Finland
... Abstract. Cloud retrievals from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments aboard the satellites Terra and Aqua and the Visible Infrared Imag- ing Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument ...
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The impact of lightning on tropospheric ozone chemistry using a new global lightning parametrisation
... soon seasons may not be captured by the cloud-top height approach. Two regions in South America are shown in Figure 3 C and D. Both schemes capture the southern South American annual cycle of ...
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Using cloud ice flux to parametrise large-scale lightning
... The well-used lightning flash parametrisation based on cloud-top height has large biases but the derived annual total flash density has a better spatial correlation with the LIS observat[r] ...
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Ash plume top height estimation using AATSR
... for height estimates of atmospheric ...ACM height estimates. There are a num- ber of M-series height estimate algorithms and various tools for cloud top height estimates (Muller ...
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The impact of lightning on tropospheric ozone chemistry using a new global lightning parametrisation
... proach. This suggests that the input meteorology for the ICE- FLUX scheme over the central African region is less well simulated during this season, or that the ICEFLUX scheme does not capture some necessary aspect of ...
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Exploiting the sensitivity of two satellite cloud height retrievals to cloud vertical distribution
... independent cloud- top height retrievals of the Freie Universität Berlin AATSR MERIS Cloud (FAME-C) algorithm is used to infer addi- tional information on cloud vertical distribution in ...
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Three dimensional Cloud Structure Construction with Fractal Modulation on Actual Measurement
... three-dimensional cloud structure at specific space-time as well as considering the fractal ...characteristics. Cloud top height (CTH) and cloud base height (CBH) of recipient ...
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Sensitivity analysis of polarimetric O 2A-band spectra for potential cloud retrievals using OCO-2/GOSAT measurements
... the cloud thickness from 200 to 600 m with re- spect to cloud top height for different total column absorp- tion strengths for, both, the optically thick (solid lines) and thin cloud ...
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Neural network cloud top pressure and height for MODIS
... retrieve cloud top height see Hamann et ...10 cloud top height retrieval algorithms applied to the SE- VIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible Infrared ...retrieve cloud ...
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Multiangle observations of Arctic clouds from FIRE ACE: June 3, 1998, case study
... Comparison of AirMISR retrieved cloud top height (using the complete MISR-based stereoimaging approach) shows excellent agreement with the measurements from the airborne Cloud[r] ...
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Using picosatellites for 4 D imaging of volcanic clouds:proof of concept using ISS photography of the 2009 Sarychev Peak eruption
... volcanic ash clouds, photogrammetry, cloud top height, Sarychev Peak, International Space Station,.. Telematics Earth Observation Mission, satellite formation, picosatellites..[r] ...
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Remote sensing of cloud top pressure/height from SEVIRI: analysis of ten current retrieval algorithms
... the cloud top, but clouds are vertically extended and have a complex struc- ...in cloud remote-sensing algorithms ...single cloud layer can only approximate re- ...the cloud comes from ...
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TOP THREATS IN CLOUD COMPUTING
... IaaS providers offer their customers the illusion of unlimited compute, network, and storage capacity — often coupled with a ‗frictionless‘ registration process where anyone with a valid credit card can register and ...
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A study of some cloud microphysical parameters over Iraq using satellite data
... a top priority among many atmospheric scientists because clouds are one of the greatest unknown factors in predicting changes in the Earth’s ...mean cloud top pressure patterns during spring months ...
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