Articles | Volume 6, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1903-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1903-2013
Research article
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06 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 06 Aug 2013

Detection of convective initiation using Meteosat SEVIRI: implementation in and verification with the tracking and nowcasting algorithm Cb-TRAM

D. Merk and T. Zinner

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