Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data

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Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Journal

Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Book Volume: 50-52

Pages Range: 92-101

DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.09.004

Abstract

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.

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Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Ahlers, M., Ahn, E.J., Albuquerque, I.F.M., Allekotte, I.,... Ziolkowski, M. (2013). Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data. Astroparticle Physics, 50-52, 92-101. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.09.004

MLA:

Abreu, Pedro, et al. "Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data." Astroparticle Physics 50-52 (2013): 92-101.

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