The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 40706004;the National Basic Research Program ("973" program) of China under contract No. 2005CB422301;China Meteorological Administration’s New Technology Extension Project under contract No. CMATG2008M41;the National Special Fund for public Sector Research of China under contract No. GYHY200706031;Shandong Provincial Meteorological Bureau Science Fund of China under contract No. 2004SDQXJ01.
A dual channel difference (DCD) method is applied to detect nighttime sea fog/stratus over the Huanghai Sea using the infrared (IR) data of shortwave (3.5-4.0 μm) and longwave (10.3-11.3 μm) channels from th...