Cloud classification is not only important for weather forecasts, but also for radiation budget studies. Although cloud mask and classification procedures have been proposed for Himawari-8 Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI), their applicability is sti...
Nofel Lagrosas   Gerry Bagtasa   Naohiro Manago   Hiroaki Kuze   
Aerosol and Air Quality Research 19(8) 1856-1871 2019年8月 [査読有り]
In this study, we used ground instruments, namely, a visibility meter, an integrating nephelometer, an aethalometer, a lidar, and a weather monitor, to measure the scattering enhancement factor, f(RH), which quantifies the effect of ambient relati...
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 170-173 2019年7月
Precise evaluation of cloud types is indispensable for the detailed analysis of the Earth's radiation budget. The split window algorithm (SWA) is an algorithm that has been widely employed for cloud type classification from meteorological satellit...
29TH INTERNATIONAL LASER RADAR CONFERENCE (ILRC 29) 237 2020年
Monitoring of near-surface aerosol is important for both public health issues and radiation budget studies. In this study, we report a continuous observation method of aerosol particles by means of a vertical Mie-scattering lidar in combination wi...