Articles | Volume 7, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2839-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2839-2014
Research article
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09 Sep 2014
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2014

Remote sensing of cloud top pressure/height from SEVIRI: analysis of ten current retrieval algorithms

U. Hamann, A. Walther, B. Baum, R. Bennartz, L. Bugliaro, M. Derrien, P. N. Francis, A. Heidinger, S. Joro, A. Kniffka, H. Le Gléau, M. Lockhoff, H.-J. Lutz, J. F. Meirink, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, R. Roebeling, A. Thoss, S. Platnick, P. Watts, and G. Wind

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