Abstract: Day and night mapping of the global distributions of the horizontal cloud covers and the corresponding cloud-top pressure levels are derived from the same set of infrared radiance data used to retrieve clear-column temperature ...

Abstract: The relaxation method for the inverse solution of the radiative transfer equation is applied in a dual frequency scheme for the determination of complete vertical temperature profiles in cloudy atmospheres from radiance ...

Abstract: An exact analytical transformation is presented for the remote sensing of atmospheric temperature profiles in the presence of clouds. The transformation permits direct retrieval of clear-column temperature profiles without ...

Abstract: It is shown that the relaxation method for inverse solution of the full radiative transfer equation leads to unique temperature profiles. Apart from its attractive simplicity, the algorithm is also capable of discriminating ...

Abstract: It is shown that high?precision extinction measurements over a spectral interval can he used to infer aerosol optical parameters including the, heretofore elusive, complex index of refraction, if aerosol particles in the ...

Abstract: wo meteorological reanalysis datasets are analyzed to determine the mechanical energies of the global atmosphere in the El Niño and La Niña years. The general consistency of the mean energy components between the two ...

Abstract: The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and its two companion microwave sounders, AMSU and HSB were launched into polar orbit onboard the NASA Aqua Satellite in May 2002. NASA required the sounding system to provide ...