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RISUpper Level Cloud Climatology from an Orbiting Satellite
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Selective Chopper Radiometer on Nimbus 5 includes two narrow-band channels in the 2.7 ?m absorption bands of carbon dioxide and water vapor. Because of strong absorption by these two constituents, no radiation reflected ...
A Parameterization of the Evaporation from Nonsaturated Surfaces
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The parameterization of evaporation proposed by Priestley and Taylor (1972) is modified to take account of nonsaturated surfaces. It is suggested that evaporation can be expressed as a function of net radiation, air ...
Transmission Model and Ground-Truth Investigation of Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperatures
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A band model of atmospheric transmission is used to investigate some of the multichannel sea surface temperature (MCSST) algorithms that are currently in use. The model is used with a set of atmospheric data to derive ...
Comparison and Optimization of AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature Algorithms
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Satellite measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) are regularly available from data supplied by the AVHRR instruments on the NOAA meteorological satellites. In cloudless areas SST is derived from the infrared data ...
A Multichannel, Multiangle Method for the Determination of Infrared Optical Depth of Semitransparent High Cloud from an Orbiting Satellite. Part I: Formulation and Simulation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A method is presented for determining the infrared optical depth of semitransparent clouds from satellite measurements. The technique employs cloud measurements at two infrared wavelengths and two angles. Using a simple ...
Validation of the ATSR in Australian Waters
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) was launched on the ERS-1 satellite on 17 July 1991. During the following six months, a concentrated effort was made to validate the sea surface temperature (SST) derived from ...
Remote Sounding of High Clouds. V: Infrared Properties and Structures of Tropical Thunderstorm Anvils
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The infrared properties and structures of some anvils emanating from local thunderstorms were studied by lidar and infrared radiometry at Darwin, tropical Northern Australia. The anvils were typically from 1 to 2 km deep, ...
Toward Improved Validation of Satellite Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements for Climate Research
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A poor validation strategy will compromise the quality of satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST) products because confidence limits cannot be quantified. This paper addresses the question of how to provide the ...
The Miami2001 Infrared Radiometer Calibration and Intercomparison. Part II: Shipboard Results
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The second calibration and intercomparison of infrared radiometers (Miami2001) was held at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) during a workshop held from May to June 2001. ...
Solid-State Radiometer Measurements of Sea Surface Skin Temperature
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Satellite sea surface skin temperature (SSST) maps are readily available from precisely calibrated radiometer systems such as the ERS along-track scanning radiometer and, in the near future, from the moderate-resolution ...