Abstract: he emergence of satellite-based cloud records of climate length and quality hold tremendous potential for climate model development, climate monitoring, and studies on global water cycling and its subsequent energetics. ...

Abstract: dataset is generated from a method to retrieve distributions of cloud liquid water path over partially cloudy scenes. The method was introduced in Foster et al. (2011), which described the theory and provided test cases. ...

Abstract: atellite drift is a historical issue affecting the consistency of those few satellite records capable of being used for studies on climate time scales. Here, the authors address this issue for the Pathfinder Atmospheres ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional cloud field morphology contributes to scene-averaged cloud reflectivity, but climate models do not currently incorporate methods of identifying situations where this contribution is substantial. This work ...

Abstract: A new method of deriving statistical moments related to the distribution of liquid water path over partially cloudy scenes is tested using a satellite cloud climatology. The method improves the ability to reconstruct ...

Abstract: he naive Bayesian methodology has been applied to the challenging problem of cloud detection with NOAA?s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). An analysis of collocated NOAA-18/AVHRR and Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and ...

Abstract: ced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder Atmospheres?Extended (PATMOS-x) dataset offers over three decades of global observations from the NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) project ...

Abstract: ariability and trends in total cloud cover for 1982?2009 across the contiguous United States from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), AVHRR Pathfinder Atmospheres?Extended (PATMOS-x), and EUMETSAT ...