Title
Identifying clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared satellite data
Date Issued
25 November 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abreu P.
Aglietta M.
Ahlers M.
Ahn E.J.
Albuquerque I.F.M.
Allekotte I.
Allen J.
Allison P.
Almela A.
Alvarez Castillo J.
Alvarez-Muñiz J.
Alves Batista R.
Ambrosio M.
Aminaei A.
Anchordoqui L.
Andringa S.
Antičić T.
Aramo C.
Arqueros F.
Asorey H.
Assis P.
Aublin J.
Ave M.
Avenier M.
Avila G.
Badescu A.M.
Barber K.B.
Barbosa A.F.
Bardenet R.
Baughman B.
Bäuml J.
Baus C.
Beatty J.J.
Becker K.H.
Bellétoile A.
Bellido J.A.
Benzvi S.
Berat C.
Bertou X.
Biermann P.L.
Billoir P.
Blanco F.
Blanco M.
Bleve C.
Blümer H.
Boháčová M.
Boncioli D.
Bonifazi C.
Bonino R.
Borodai N.
Brack J.
Brancus I.
Brogueira P.
Brown W.C.
Buchholz P.
Bueno A.
Buroker L.
Burton R.E.
Buscemi M.
Caballero-Mora K.S.
Caccianiga B.
Caccianiga L.
Caramete L.
Caruso R.
Castellina A.
Cataldi G.
Cazon L.
Cester R.
Cheng S.H.
Chiavassa A.
Chinellato J.A.
Chirinos J.
Chudoba J.
Cilmo M.
Clay R.W.
Cocciolo G.
Colalillo R.
Collica L.
Coluccia M.R.
Conceição R.
Contreras F.
Cook H.
Cooper M.J.
Coutu S.
Covault C.E.
Criss A.
Cronin J.
Curutiu A.
Dallier R.
Daniel B.
Dasso S.
Daumiller K.
Dawson B.R.
De Almeida R.M.
De Domenico M.
De Jong S.J.
De La Vega G.
De Mello W.J.M.
De Mello Neto J.R.T.
De Mitri I.
Publisher(s)
Astroparticle Physics
Abstract
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. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Start page
92
End page
101
Volume
50-52
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84887945060
Source
Astroparticle Physics
ISSN of the container
09276505
Sponsor(s)
We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Fundación Antorchas, Gobierno De La Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malargüe, NDM Holdings and Valle Las Leñas, in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access, Argentina; the Australian Research Council; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia (MCT) , Brazil; AVCR AV0Z10100502 and AV0Z10100522 , GAAV KJB100100904 , MSMT-CR LA08016 , LG11044 , MEB111003 , MSM0021620859 , LA08015 , TACR TA01010517 and GA UK 119810 , Czech Republic; Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Conseil Régional Ile-de-France, Département Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), Département Sciences de l’Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-Württemberg, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Mexico; Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands; Ministry of Science and Higher Education , Grant Nos. N N202 200239 and N N202 207238 , Poland; Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; Romanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS, CNDI-UEFISCDI partnership projects nr.20/2012 and nr.194/2012, project nr.1/ASPERA2/2012 ERA-NET and PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0145-17, Romania; Ministry for Higher Education, Science, and Technology, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia; Comunidad de Madrid, FEDER funds, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Consolider-Ingenio 2010 (CPAN), Xunta de Galicia, Spain; The Leverhulme Foundation, Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom; Department of Energy, Contract Nos. DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300, DE-FG02-99ER41107, National Science Foundation , Grant No. 0450696 , The Grainger Foundation USA; NAFOSTED, Vietnam; Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET, European Particle Physics Latin American Network, European Union 7th Framework Program , Grant No. PIRSES-2009-GA-246806 ; and UNESCO .
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