Abstract: A unique and promising method is outlined for determining the complex part of the index of refraction of atmospheric dust by utilizing measurements of diffuse and direct solar radiation. The solution requires comparison ...

Abstract: This paper describes a new radiation monitoring program, the Integrated Surface Irradiance Study (ISIS), that builds upon and takes over from earlier NOAA networks monitoring components of solar radiation [both the visible ...

Abstract: A simple two-channel solar radiometer and analysis technique have been developed for setting atmospheric water vapor via differential solar transmission measurements in and adjacent to the 940-nm water vapor absorption ...

Abstract: On 30 September 1970, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) obtained data on the vertical distribution of particulate material over Boulder, Colo., from laser radar soundings and simultaneous airborne particle ...

Abstract: Although most measurements of total downwelling shortwave irradiance are made with pyranometers, the World Climate Research Program?s Baseline Surface Radiation Network has recommended the use of the summation of shortwave ...

Abstract: The experimental results in Part I are used in the theoretical interpretation of the radiation flux measurements which were taken with an aircraft. The absorption term of the complex refractive index of aerosols is estimated ...