Operational generation of AVHRR-based cloud products for Europe and the Arctic at EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM-SAF)

Authors :: Karl-Göran Karlsson
Diana Stein
P. Fuchs
A. Dybbroe
Jörg Schulz
N. Selbach
M. Lockhoff
Frank Kaspar
R. Hollmann
Source :: Advances in Science and Research, Vol 3, Pp 45-51 (2009)
Publication Year :: 2009
Publisher :: Copernicus GmbH, 2009.
Abstract: The Satelite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring has implemented a new processing environment for AVHRR-based climate monitoring products. AVHRR measurements from NOAA-17, NOAA-18 and MetOp-A are utilized to generate daily and monthly means of several cloud parameters for Europe and the Inner Arctic: Cloud fraction, cloud types, cloud phase, cloud top height, cloud optical thickness and cloud liquid water path.

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