Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1768501 | Advances in Space Research | 2008 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
A snow (and sea-ice) retrieval technique based on spectral measurements from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) on board Meteosat 8 is presented. It has been developed to improve the scene identification and thus the ADM selection in the near-real time processing of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. The improvement in the GERB short wave flux estimations over snow covered scene types resulting from angular conversion using dedicated snow ADMs (e.g., empirical snow ADMs and/or pre-computed theoretical snow ADM) instead of empirical snow-free ADMs is discussed.
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Authors
C. Bertrand, L. Gonzalez, A. Ipe, N. Clerbaux, S. Dewitte,