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Karl-Göran Karlsson

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PhD Meteorology.

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Karl-Göran Karlsson

Fields of work

Multispectral analysis of satellite imagery to retrieve cloud occurrence and cloud properties from meteorological satellite imagery. Compilation of global cloud climatologies for studies of cloud climate trends and variability and cloud-climate feedback processes.

Research Interests

  • Cloud detection in satellite imagery
  • Climate monitoring
  • Cloud-climate feedback processes

Special competences

Responsible for the climate data record CLARA (“The CM SAF cLoud, Albedo and surface RAdiation dataset from AVHRR data”) compiled within the framework of the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring Satellite Application Facility (CMSAF – www.cmsaf.eu External link.)

Latest publications

Lessons Learned from the Updated GEWEX Cloud Assessment Database (vol 45, pg 1999, 2024)

Claudia J. Stubenrauch, Stefan Kinne, Giulio Mandorli, William B. Rossow, David M. Winker, Steven A. Ackerman, Helene Chepfer, Larry Di Girolamo, Anne Garnier, Andrew Heidinger, Karl-Göran Karlsson, Kerry Meyer, Patrick Minnis, Steven Platnick, Martin Stengel, Szedung Sun-Mack, Paolo Veglio, Andi Walther, Xia Cai, Alisa H. Young, Guangyu Zhao

In: Surveys in geophysics

2026

DOI: 10.1007/s10712-026-09955-6