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Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data
PIERRE AUGER Collaboration
Abreu, P.
Pastor, Sergio
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Pierre Auger Observatory
Extensive air showers
Atmospheric monitoring
Clouds
We describe a new method of identifying night-time clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared data from the Imager instruments on the GOES-12 and GOES-13 satellites. We compare cloud. identifications resulting from our method to those obtained by the Central Laser Facility of the Auger Observatory. Using our new method we can now develop cloud probability maps for the 3000 km(2) of the Pierre Auger Observatory twice per hour with a spatial resolution of similar to 2.4 km by similar to 5.5 km. Our method could also be applied to monitor cloud cover for other ground-based observatories and for space-based observatories. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
2014-12-09T13:41:04Z
2014-12-09T13:41:04Z
2013-12-01
artículo
Astroparticle Physics (50-52): 92-101 (2013)
0927-6505
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/108536
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.09.004
1873-2852
eng
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.09.004
Sí
openAccess
Elsevier España