Abstract: The position of a large area of dust was successfully located over the Sahara Desert and off the west coast of Africa with infrared measurements from the Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) and visible information ...

Abstract: The flux density measured at satellite altitude with a fixed field of view radiometer differs from the true flux density reflected by the earth-atmosphere system within the field of view of the radiometer. This difference ...

Abstract: Orographically-induced lee-wave clouds were observed over New Mexico by a multichannel scanning radiometer on Skylab during December 1973. Channels centered at 0.83, 1.61 and 2.125 ?m were used to determine the cloud optical ...

Abstract: A two-channel method has been developed to estimate the altitude of cirrus clouds over ocean areas with an expected altitude error ≤ ± 50 mb. Reflected radiation is used to estimate cirrus emissivity in the 10?11 ?m spectral ...

Abstract: Measurements were taken of the polarization of solar radiation reflected from the desert terrain 18 mi SW of Tucson. The polarimeter was mounted in an aircraft and flown from 1000?2000 ft above the surface. Results showed ...

Abstract: Theoretical computations of the intensity and polarization of diffusively transmitted sunlight are presented for two wavelengths, ? = 4290 Å and ? = 5000 Å. The computations are for atmospheres containing various distributions ...