Basic Satellite Course: Cloud top heights
Competency Framework
WMO Satellite Skills
Application
Description
Deduce cloud top heights based on brightness temperatures, surface observations and sounding data.
Content
In this part of the course you will not only learn more about the identification of clouds such as Stratus, Cumulus and Cirrus from satellite images, and you will also discover various methods to derive cloud height information. Microphysical properties of clouds like cloud phase and cloud particle size are also addressed.
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