To date very low scores are associated to quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) of warm season precipitation, a fact mostly due to the little knowledge of the mechanisms driving these phenomena. The study aims to produce a five-year climatology (1999–2003) of warm season precipitation systems (MJJA) over Europe using Meteosat IR brightness temperatures as a contribution to a global study l...

This paper concerns the characterization of clouds on meteorological satellite image sequences through points trajectories. These temporal curves can be computed from the result of motion estimation over image sequences. The study includes a representation method for the trajectories, which is based on normalized Fourier modules. The original trajectories can be compared independently of their ...

Two approaches for estimation of remotely sensed land surface temperature, Ts, based on MSG-SEVIRI data have been tested in a semi-arid environment in West Africa. A local algorithm, based on in situ measured Ts and a regional algorithm, based on MODIS LST products. They are both based on the split-window technique and show encouraging results, however applications are limited to the region for...