Antarctica cloud cover for October 2003 from GLAS satellite lidar profiling

Laser pulse reflectance of the ocean surface from the GLAS satellite lidar

[1] The world’s oceans can potentially be used as an extended target for achieving a radiometric calibration of space borne lidar if the reflective properties of the surface can be accurately predicted from available environmental data such as wind speed. To test current understanding of ocean reflectance we compare surface pulse returns measured with the 1064 nm altimetry channel of the Geosci...

Cloud Cover Determination in Polar Regions from Satellite Imagery

1.0 Introduction Difficulties with Satellite Cloud Analysis in Polar Regions Objectives of this Project 1.1 1.2 Data Cloud Detection Algorithms 3.1 Classification of Clouds and Surfaces with Fuzzy Sets 3.2 Classification of Clouds and Surfaces with Neural Networks 3.3 Cloud Detection with Spatial and Temporal Coherence 3.4 Cloud Detection Following an ISCCP Methodology 4.0 Analysis of Cloud Pat...

Total cloud cover from satellite observations and climate models

Article history: Received 27 April 2011 Received in revised form 10 January 2012 Accepted 10 January 2012 Available online xxxx Global and zonal monthly means of cloud cover fraction for total cloudiness (CF) from the ISCCP D2 dataset are compared to same quantities produced by the 20th century simulations of 21 climatemodels from theWorld Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) CoupledModel Inte...

cover 16-5 October 2019

Cover 17-5 October 2020