Abstract: Infrared beating rates determined from the Line Islands Experiment radiometersonde measurements vary from ?4 to ?0.5°C day?1 at 250 nib. Correspondingly, the beating rates at 500 mb vary from +0.5 to ?3°C day?1. These ...

Abstract: The actual performance of an Eppley pyrgeometer is compared to the desired theoretical performance. Several systematic errors are identified and evaluated in detail. The three most significant errors identified are due to ...

Abstract: A climatology of direct beam irradiance has been compiled for Mauna Loa Observatory. A broadband transmittance, calculated from the direct-beam data, has been stratified into clear sky and optically thin and thick cloud ...

Abstract: The feasibility of using a photodiode radiometer to infer optical depth of thin clouds from solar intensity measurements is examined. Data were collected by a photodiode radiometer which measured incident radiation at ...

Abstract: By varying the amount of water vapor as input to the radiative power transfer equation, assuming a constant carbon dioxide and varying ozone distribution, it is possible to infer stratospheric water vapor from broadband ...

Abstract: A technique has been developed from simultaneous satellite and aircraft data that allows the magnitude and gradient of the earth's surface albedo to be inferred from satellite measurements of the earth-atmosphere system ...

Abstract: A concept and an apparatus designed to investigate the reflected and transmitted distributions of light from optically thick clouds is presented. The Cloud Field Optical Simulator (CFOS) is a laboratory device which utilizes ...

Abstract: There is considerable controversy in the literature concerning fog formation. One set of observations suggests that fog forms during a lull in turbulence, white another set of observations suggests that increased turbulence ...

Abstract: Vertical profiles of cloud microphysical data and longwave and shortwave radiation measurements through the marine boundary layer were obtained using an instrument package on the NASA tethered balloon during the FIRE Marine ...

Abstract: Beam transmittance, emittance, reflectance, and outgoing radiance are inferred from interferometric measurements in the infrared window region for 14 temperate continental and 12 subtropical cirrus cloud cash observed ...