2nd Workshop on Atmospheric Monitoring

Identifying Clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using Satellite Data

14 Sep 2010, 16:00

30m

Class of '24 - 4th Fl E (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MEMORIAL UNION)

Cloud Identification and Monitoring Cloud Identification and Monitoring

Speaker

Johana Chirinos

Description

We describe a new method of identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared data from the Imager instrument on the GOES-12 satellite. For the pixel covering the Central Laser Facility(CLF) we compare cloud identifications with this method to those made with the Fluorescence Detector observations of CLF vertical laser events. The methods agree. We develop cloud probability maps of the array.

Presentation Materials

Slides

jc_atmon_clouds.pdf