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RISColumn Cloud Liquid Water Amounts for Nonprecipitating Clouds versus an “Effective Cloud Fraction” Derived from Microwave Data: A Simulation Study
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The effective cloud fraction evaluated using a minimum residual method and microwave data synthesized for the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) has been extended by a simple statistical procedure to make estimates ...
Improvements to a Simple Physical Model for Estimating Insolation from GOES Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The simple physical model to estimate surface insolation from GOES data (described in Gautier et al., 1980) has been improved through some modifications to existing physics (Rayleigh scattering and water vapor absorption), ...
Retrieval of Nonprecipitating Liquid Water Cloud Parameters from Microwave Data: A Simulation Study
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new microwave algorithm, analogous to the infrared ?radiance-ratioing? method (Eyre and Menzel 1989) is developed to retrieve the height and ?effective? fraction (defined as the product of the emissivity times the actual ...
Preparing for the AMSU
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) is a 20-channel microwave satellite remote-sensing system comprising two separate radiometers, which is slated to be launched on NOAA polar-orbiting satellites beginning in 1994. ...
Estimating Fluxes on Continental Scales Using Remotely Sensed Data in an Atmospheric–Land Exchange Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple model of energy exchange between the land surface and the atmospheric boundary layer, driven by input that can be derived primarily through remote sensing, is described and applied over continental scales at a ...
Short-Range Precipitation Forecasts Using Assimilation of Simulated Satellite Water Vapor Profiles and Column Cloud Liquid Water Amounts
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: These observing system simulation experiments investigate the assimilation of satellite-observed water vapor and cloud liquid water data in the initialization of a limited-area primitive equations model with the goal of ...
Validation of GOES-Based Insolation Estimates Using Data from the U.S. Climate Reference Network
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Reliable procedures that accurately map surface insolation over large domains at high spatial and temporal resolution are a great benefit for making the predictions of potential and actual evapotranspiration that are ...
Agricultural Management Decision Aids Driven by Real-Time Satellite Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In a NASA-sponsored program entitled "Use of Earth and Space Science Data Over the Internet," scientists at the University of Wisconsin?Madison have developed a suite of products for agriculture that are based in satellite ...
Estimating Land Surface Energy Budgets From Space: Review and Current Efforts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and USDA–ARS
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Since the advent of the meteorological satellite, a large research effort within the community of earth scientists has been directed at assessing the components of the land surface energy balance from space. The development ...