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Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using multispectral satellite data
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Nauss, Thomas Kokhanovsky, Alexander A. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | 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 de- tection of mainly convective precipitation by means of the commonly used connection between infrared cloud top tem- perature and rainfall probability but enables the detection of stratiform precipitation (e.g., in connection with mid-latitude frontal systems). The scheme presented is based on the con- cept model, that precipitating clouds must have both a suf- ficient vertical extent and large enough droplets. Therefore, we have analysed MODIS scenes during the severe European summer floods in 2002 and retrieved functions for the com- putation of an auto-adaptive threshold value of the effective cloud droplet radius with respect to the corresponding opti- cal thickness which links these cloud properties with rainfall areas on a pixel basis. |
| Starting Page | 1385 |
| Ending Page | 1398 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.5194/acp-6-5031-2006 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/52754910.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/30/10/01/PDF/acpd-6-1385-2006.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/6/5031/2006/acp-6-5031-2006.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/29/60/71/PDF/acp-6-5031-2006.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/6/1385/2006/acpd-6-1385-2006.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-6-5031-2006 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |