Essays about: "tropical cloud regime identification"

Found 1 essay containing the words tropical cloud regime identification.

  1. 1. An Extrapolation Technique of Cloud Characteristics Using Tropical Cloud Regimes

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Luft-, vatten- och landskapslära

    Author : Salomon Eliasson; [2006]
    Keywords : tropical cloud regime identification; cloud characterisation; satellite remote sensing;

    Abstract : This thesis tests a technique based on objectively identified tropical cloud regimes, in which some cloud characteristics are extrapolated from a single site in the tropics to the entire tropics. Information on cloud top pressure, cloud optical thickness and total cloud cover from 1985-2000 has been derived from the ISCCP D1 data set and has been used to create maps of tropical cloud regimes and maps of total cloud cover over the tropics. READ MORE