APCADA Project - Main Site

Automatic
Partial
Cloud
Amount
Detection
Algorithm

    developed by Bruno Dürr (bruno.duerr [at] meteoswiss.ch)

    error reports to Christian Thomann (c.thomann [at] pmodwrc.ch)

APCADA is a real-time system developed for estimating the actual sky cloud cover with surface measurements of longwave downward radiation, temperature and relative humidity every 10 minutes 24 hours a day.

Note: Thin high clouds (cirrus clouds) cannot be detected by APCADA. Thus, only total cloud amount without cirrus clouds (called partial cloud amount) is estimated by APCADA.

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