Basic Satellite Course: Clouds and particles
Competency Framework
WMO Satellite Skills
Application
Description
Identify clouds made of water droplets, ice particles or a mixture and discriminate between clouds with small or large cloud particles.
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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