TECHNICAL NOTE: APPLICABILITY OF PHYSICS-BASED AND MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED ALGORITHMS OF A GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE IN RETRIEVING THE DIURNAL CYCLE OF CLOUD BASE HEIGHT

Technical note: Applicability of physics-based and machine-learning-based algorithms of a geostationary satellite in retrieving the diurnal cycle of cloud base height

Two groups of retrieval algorithms, physics based and machine learning (ML) based, each consisting of two independent approaches, have been developed to retrieve cloud base height (CBH) and its diurnal cycle from Himawari-8 geostationary satellite observations.Validations have been conducted using the joint CloudSat/Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogo

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The establishment of the Carmelite Order in Zamora. Origin and decline of a female community in the 20th Century

The presence of the Carmelite charism in the diocese of Zamora goes back to two convents founded in Toro in the period of twenty-eight years between the 16th and 17th centuries.Despite the attempts to erect a Carmelite community in the capital of the diocese, this was not possible until 1953 with a foundation of contemplatives.Its establishment und

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A Primer to the Sunni-Shia Conflict

Which dispute is so resilient that it continues nearly 1,400 years after the original quarrel? It is the Sunni-Shiite dispute VITEX 80MG over the question who should succeed the Prophet Mohammed.The original struggle turns around the question if religio-political leadership should be passed on by bloodline (the Shiite imamate) or election (the Sunn

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