AN EVALUATION OF NORTHERN HEMISPHERE MERGED CLOUD ANALYSES FROM THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE CLOUD DEPICTION FORECASTING SYSTEM II

Data from the CloudSat cloud profiling radar was used to verify the performance, or operational health, of the United States Air Forces World Wide Merged Cloud Analysis (WWMCA) system to detect clouds. WWMCA performance for 2010 over the Northern Hemisphere was analyzed by (1) cloud event category C...

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Main Author: Pasillas, Chandra M.
Other Authors: Murphree, Tom
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/32883