Abstract: Measurements of infrared radiation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration series of satellites are used to retrieve atmospheric temperature, moisture, and ozone. It is well known that the measurements ...

Abstract: In many experiments where radiation emitted from the surface or lower atmosphere is to be measured, a fundamental difficulty is the presence of clouds. In this paper a technique is developed and described which uses a ...

Abstract: In interpreting radiation data from the Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometers aboard the NOAA satellites, the following problem arose: given a satellite retrieval of the atmospheric temperature profile and a measurement ...

Abstract: It is generally assumed that atmospheric transmittance functions are known to an accuracy of no better than about five to ten percent. Consequently, one can expect a major impact of these errors on temperature retrieves ...

Abstract: The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) is the first of a new generation of polar-orbiting cross-track microwave sounders operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A feature of a cross-track ...

Abstract: A method for deriving a water vapor index is presented. An important feature of the index is the fact that it does not rely on radiosondes. Thus, it is not influenced by problems associated with radiosondes and the extent ...

Abstract: Many methods for converting satellite radiances to temperatures require a comparison of observed radiances with radiances calculated from a first guess. Usually, measured values must be tuned to agree with theoretical ...

Abstract: Layer-mean virtual temperatures retrieved from satellite measurements are more accurate than retrievals at specific pressure not only because an averaging process is involved, but also because of advantages in the retrieval ...

Abstract: The SSM/I has been used successfully to estimate precipitation and to determine the fields of view (FOV) that contain precipitating clouds. The use of multivariate logistic regression with the SSM/I brightness temperatures ...

Abstract: Total ozone amounts are determined from atmospheric radiances measured by the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS). The retrieval procedure is one of linear regression where total ozone amounts derived from Dobson ...