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Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data
Fecha
2013-10Registro en:
Allekotte, Ingomar; Almela, Daniel Alejandro; Asorey, Hernán Gonzalo; Avila, G.; Bertou, Xavier Pierre Louis; et al.; Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data; Elsevier; Astroparticle Physics; 50-52; 10-2013; 92-101
0927-6505
Autor
Allekotte, Ingomar
Almela, Daniel Alejandro
Asorey, Hernán Gonzalo
Avila, G.
Bertou, Xavier Pierre Louis
Contreras, F.
Dasso, Sergio Ricardo
de la Vega, Gonzalo Andrés
Dova, Maria Teresa
Etchegoyen, Alberto
Figueira, Juan Manuel
Filevich, Alberto
Gamarra, R. F.
Garcia, Beatriz Elena
Gitto, J.
Golup, Geraldina Tamara
Gomez Albarracin, Flavia Alejandra
Gomez Berisso, Mariano
Gómez Vitale, P. F.
Guardincerri, Yann
Hansen, Patricia Maria
Harari, Diego Dario
Jarne, Cecilia Gisele
Josebachuili Ogando, Mariela Gisele
Kleinfeller, J.
Lucero, Luis Agustin
Mariazzi, Analisa Gabriela
Marin, J.
Masías Meza, Jimmy Joel
Melo, Diego Gabriel
Micheletti, Maria Isabel
Mollerach, Maria Silvia
Moreno, Juan Cruz
Pallotta, Juan Vicente
Piegaia, Ricardo Nestor
Pieroni, Pablo Emanuel
Platino, Manuel
Ponce, Victor Hugo
Quel, Eduardo Jaime
Ravignani Guerrero, Diego
Ristori, Pablo Roberto
Rodriguez Martino, Julio César
Rodriguez Rojo, J.
Roulet, Esteban
Rovero, Adrian Carlos
Sanchez, Federico Andrés
Sato, R.
Schröder, Frank Gerhard
Sciutto, Sergio Juan
Sidelnik, Iván Pedro
Squartini, R.
Suarez, Federico
Supanitsky, Alberto Daniel
Tapia Casanova, Alex Marcelo
Tiffenberg, Javier Sebastian
Videla, Mariela
Wahlberg, Hernan Pablo
Wainberg, Oscar Isaac
Wundheiler, Brian
The Pierre Auger Collaboration
Resumen
We describe a new method of identifying night-time clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared data from the Imager instruments on the GOES-12 and GOES-13 satellites. We compare cloud identifications resulting from our method to those obtained by the Central Laser Facility of the Auger Observatory. Using our new method we can now develop cloud probability maps for the 3000 km2 of the Pierre Auger Observatory twice per hour with a spatial resolution of ∼2.4 km by ∼5.5 km. Our method could also be applied to monitor cloud cover for other ground-based observatories and for space-based observatories.