Partly Cloudy Pixels

by mikrosopht

Scoring has ended

The stats

Scoring finished:

1418 days ago

Submitted on:

Jul 09 '08

Comments:

5 comments

Average score:

1.52 from 306 votes

Share with friends

Pin It

Click here to see some ultra-fancy banner options, ready for use on your blog!

My other submissions

Watch this

About my design

by mikrosopht

Retrievals of cloud properties from satellite imagery often invoke the assumption that the fields of view are overcast when cloud-contaminated, even though a significant fraction are only partially cloud-covered. The overcast assumption leads to biases in the retrieved cloud properties: cloud amounts and droplet effective radii are typically overestimated, while visible optical depths, cloud altitudes, cloud liquid water amounts, and column droplet number concentrations are typically underestimated. belt printed white on light blue.