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A precise understanding of the Earth’s clouds and precipitation processes represents the natural key for a weather forecasting strategy down to the nowcasting space and time scales where cloud processes play a role and must be accurately parameterized into models. Clouds are also a governing factor in the quantification of the Earth’s radiation budget, which is in turn crucial for climate and global change issues. A wide variety of satellite sensors is now in orbit or about to be launched with an unprecedented spectral width, sensitivity and space-time resolution. In the following we will examine just a few of the new possibilities offered to science and operational meteorology and climatology by the new generation VIS/IR sensors.
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Levizzani, V. (2002). Clouds and Rainfall by Visible-Infrared Radiometry. In: Marzano, F.S., Visconti, G. (eds) Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean from Space: Models, Instruments and Techniques. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48150-2_9
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