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Meerkötter, Ralf and Zinner, Tobias (2007) Satellite remote sensing of cloud base height for convective cloud fiels: A case study. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (L17805), pp. 1-4. Wiley. DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030347
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL030347
Abstract
A method is proposed for estimating base heights of convective clouds from satellite data. The approach takes advantage of the fact that convective water clouds appear as geometrically and optically thin clouds near an approximately constant condensation level in their earliest stage of growth and that deriving geometrical thicknesses for such thin clouds is less error prone. Striking is the fact that the method also provides the base height for clouds with large vertical extensions and high optical thicknesses. The method has been applied to NOAA/AVHRR data of 20 selected cloud scenes. For an evaluation satellite retrieved cloud base heights have been compared to surface ceilometer measurements at the same time. First results are encouraging. The standard deviation of the differences between satellite and ceilometer measurements is ± 369m with no systematic bias.
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| Document Type: | Article | |||||||||
| Title: | Satellite remote sensing of cloud base height for convective cloud fiels: A case study | |||||||||
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| Date: | 12 April 2007 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Geophysical Research Letters | |||||||||
| Refereed publication: | Yes | |||||||||
| Open Access: | Yes | |||||||||
| Gold Open Access: | No | |||||||||
| In SCOPUS: | Yes | |||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | |||||||||
| Volume: | 34 | |||||||||
| DOI : | 10.1029/2007GL030347 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-4 | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | |||||||||
| Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Cloud base height, Remote sensing, NOAA/AVHRR data | |||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport (old) | |||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Space (old) | |||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | W - no assignment | |||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Space | |||||||||
| DLR - Program: | W - no assignment | |||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | W - no assignment (old) | |||||||||
| Location: | Oberpfaffenhofen | |||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Atmospheric Physics > Atmospheric Remote Sensing | |||||||||
| Deposited By: | Meerkötter, Dr.rer.nat. Ralf | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 10 Sep 2007 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2019 19:18 |
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