Verification of Cloud Analyses used to Support Overhead Imagery Collection

We verified the USAF World Wide Merged Cloud Analysis (WWMCA) against observations from the Cloudsat atmospheric sounder. We analyzed WWMCA data for 2010 for two regions that are of high interest to the national intelligence community and that differ in their meteorological characteristics. The two...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cleary, Robert J.
Other Authors: Murphree, Tom
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6778