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Arqueros Martínez, Fernando and Blanco Ramos, Francisco and García Pinto, Diego and Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés and Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat and Rosado Vélez, Jaime and Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón (2013) Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data. Astroparticle Physics, 50-52 . pp. 92-101. ISSN 0927-6505
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © Elsevier Science BV 2013. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ultra-high energy cosmic rays; lPierre Auger Observatory; Extensive air showers; Atmospheric monitoring; Clouds; Satellites |
Subjects: | Sciences > Physics > Nuclear physics |
ID Code: | 32491 |
Deposited On: | 28 Jul 2015 10:57 |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2018 14:58 |
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