Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-309-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-309-2013
Research article
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11 Feb 2013
Research article |  | 11 Feb 2013

An improved cirrus detection algorithm MeCiDA2 for SEVIRI and its evaluation with MODIS

F. Ewald, L. Bugliaro, H. Mannstein, and B. Mayer

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