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RISCloud Microphysics of the Giant Planets
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The predominant cloud microphysical processes for the atmospheres of the giant planets are determined by a comparison of their characteristic time constants. These results are an extension of the earlier microphysical ...
Absorption within Inhomogeneous Clouds and Its Parameterization in General Circulation Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The effect on absorption in clouds of having an inhomogeneous distribution of droplets is shown to depend on whether one replaces a homogeneous cloud by an inhomogeneous cloud that has the same mean optical thickness, or ...
A Model of Saturn's Seasonal Stratosphere at the Time of the Voyager Encounters
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Seasonal variability of temperature within Saturn's stratosphere for all latitudes has been modeled, and results are presented for January 1981, a time which is representative of the Voyager 1 (November 1980) and Voyager ...
The Spatiotemporal Structure of Twentieth-Century Climate Variations in Observations and Reanalyses. Part I: Long-Term Trend
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The dominant interannual El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and the short length of climate observation records make it difficult to study long-term climate variations in the spatiotemporal domain. Based on the ...
Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases by Means of Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer. Part II: Climatological Applications
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Measurements from ground-based sun photometer networks can be used both to provide ground-truth validation of satellite aerosol retrievals and to produce a land-based aerosol climatology that is complementary to satellite ...
Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases by Means of Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer. Part I: Retrieval Algorithm
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A retrieval algorithm for processing multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer (MFRSR) data from clear and partially cloudy days is described and validated. This method, while complementary to the Langley approach, uses ...
The Spatiotemporal Structure of Twentieth-Century Climate Variations in Observations and Reanalyses. Part II: Pacific Pan-Decadal Variability
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The spatiotemporal structure of Pacific pan-decadal variability (PDV) is isolated in global long-term surface temperature (ST) datasets and reanalysis atmospheric parameter fields from which El Niño?Southern Oscillation ...
Scaling Properties of Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieved from Ground-Based Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Statistical scale-by-scale analysis, for the first time, has been applied to the aerosol optical thickness (AOT) retrieved from the Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR) network. The MFRSR data were collected ...
An Intercomparison of the Spatiotemporal Variability of Satellite- and Ground-Based Cloud Datasets Using Spectral Analysis Techniques
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ecause of the importance of clouds in modulating Earth?s energy budget, it is critical to understand their variability in space and time for climate and modeling studies. This study examines the consistency of the ...