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ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 1135-1152Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-1135-2016
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- German Research Council (DFG) [TH 1531/2-1]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China [TH 1531/2-1]
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The mountain cloud forest of Taiwan can be delimited from other forest types using a map of the ground fog frequency. In order to create such a frequency map from remotely sensed data, an algorithm able to detect ground fog is necessary. Common techniques for ground fog detection based on weather satellite data cannot be applied to fog occurrences in Taiwan as they rely on several assumptions regarding cloud properties. Therefore a new statistical method for the detection of ground fog in mountainous terrain from MODIS Collection 051 data is presented. Due to the sharpening of input data using MODIS bands 1 and 2, the method provides fog masks in a resolution of 250 m per pixel. The new technique is based on negative correlations between optical thickness and terrain height that can be observed if a cloud that is relatively plane-parallel is truncated by the terrain. A validation of the new technique using camera data has shown that the quality of fog detection is comparable to that of another modern fog detection scheme developed and validated for the temperate zones. The method is particularly applicable to optically thinner water clouds. Beyond a cloud optical thickness of approximate to 40, classification errors significantly increase.
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