Cloud and cloud shadow detection for optical satellite imagery: Features, algorithms, validation, and prospects

Z Li, H Shen, Q Weng, Y Zhang, P Dou… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of clouds prevents optical satellite imaging systems from obtaining useful
Earth observation information and negatively affects the processing and application of …

Advances in understanding clouds from ISCCP

WB Rossow, RA Schiffer - Bulletin of the American …, 1999 - journals.ametsoc.org
This progress report on the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)
describes changes made to produce new cloud data products (D data), examines the …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle variations of mesoscale convective systems over the Americas

LAT Machado, WB Rossow, RL Guedes… - Monthly Weather …, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
Life Cycle Variations of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the Americas in: Monthly
Weather Review Volume 126 Issue 6 (1998) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

[HTML][HTML] A cloud and precipitation feature database from nine years of TRMM observations

C Liu, EJ Zipser, DJ Cecil, SW Nesbitt… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Cloud and Precipitation Feature Database from Nine Years of TRMM Observations in:
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 47 Issue 10 (2008) Jump to …

Global distribution of convection penetrating the tropical tropopause

C Liu, EJ Zipser - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical deep convection with overshooting tops is identified by defining five different
reference heights using a 5‐year TRMM database. The common properties of these extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale variability of deep convection in realation to large-scale circulation in TOGA COARE

SS Chen, RA Houze, BE Mapes - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 1996 - journals.ametsoc.org
Deep convection over the Indo–Pacific oceanic warm pool in the Tropical Ocean Global
Atmosphere Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) occurred …

Statistical characteristics of raindrop size distributions observed in East China during the Asian summer monsoon season using 2‐D video disdrometer and Micro Rain …

L Wen, K Zhao, G Zhang, M Xue, B Zhou… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The characteristics of raindrop size distributions (DSDs) and vertical structures of rainfall
during the Asian summer monsoon season in East China are studied using measurements …

Clouds, radiation, and the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature in the tropical western Pacific

PJ Webster, CA Clayson, JA Curry - Journal of Climate, 1996 - journals.ametsoc.org
The relationship among clouds, surface radiation flux, and the sea surface temperature
(SST) of the tropical western Pacific Ocean over the diurnal cycle is addressed in the context …

Variability of midtropospheric moisture and its effect on cloud-top height distribution during TOGA COARE

RG Brown, C Zhang - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
The tropical western Pacific warm pool is often generalized to be a region of heavy
precipitation. This conceptis useful in constructing simplified models of the tropical …

Equipment and methodologies for cloud detection and classification: A review

R Tapakis, AG Charalambides - Solar Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
The penetration and acceptance of Renewable Energy Systems (RESs) has already taken
place in our lives. Solar energy is the feedstock/source for various applications of RES, and …