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Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds

Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using multispectral satellite data T. Nauss and A. A. Kokhanovsky Laboratory of Climatology and Remote Sensing, University of Marburg, Germany Institute of Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Germany Received: 9 November 2005 – Accepted: 20 December 2005 – Published: 20 February 2006 Correspondence to: T. Nauss ([email protected]) © ...

Your Magazine (From the Editor) - Control Systems Magazine, IEEE

Surely, you’ve read in-flight magazines, even when you’ve had work to do. Articles on fascinating subjects such as the science of laughter and the world’s best concierge are hard to resist. But suppose you’d tucked the magazine you’re now reading into the seat pocket in front of you and then inadvertently abandoned it upon reaching your destination. What chain of events might such an oversight ...

Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using Meteosat Second Generation daytime data

A new method for the delineation of precipitation during daytime using multispectral satellite data is proposed. The approach is not only applicable to the detection of mainly convective precipitation by means of the commonly used relation between infrared cloud top temperature and rainfall probability but enables also the detection of stratiform precipitation (e.g. in connection with mid-latit...

Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using multispectral satellite data

We propose a new method for the delineation of precipitation using cloud properties derived from optical satellite data. This approach is not only sufficient for the detection of mainly convective precipitation by means of the commonly used connection between infrared cloud top temperature and rainfall probability but enables the detection of stratiform precipitation (e.g., in connection with m...

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