TY - JOUR
T1 - Constructing global nephanalyses
T2 - a review of recent progress in cloud detection and analysis.
AU - Goodman, A. H.
AU - Henderson-Sellers, A.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - During the past decade there have been considerable advances in satellite based cloud retrieval techniques through the development and testing of retrieval algorithms. Operational use of these algorithms is hindered by such features as spatial and temporal variations in surface properties, cloud/snow differentiation and the structure of the cloud field itself, cirrus clouds, for example, being particularly difficult to detect. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) algorithm intercomparison of 1981/2 revealed that no single algorithm could operate successfully on a global scale and, even now it appears that any future global retrieval algorithm will be an heterogeneous composite of available techniques. -from Authors
AB - During the past decade there have been considerable advances in satellite based cloud retrieval techniques through the development and testing of retrieval algorithms. Operational use of these algorithms is hindered by such features as spatial and temporal variations in surface properties, cloud/snow differentiation and the structure of the cloud field itself, cirrus clouds, for example, being particularly difficult to detect. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) algorithm intercomparison of 1981/2 revealed that no single algorithm could operate successfully on a global scale and, even now it appears that any future global retrieval algorithm will be an heterogeneous composite of available techniques. -from Authors
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0023467569
SN - 0402-1215
SP - 446
EP - 452
JO - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Paper)
JF - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Paper)
ER -