Abstract: A parameter estimation technique is presented to estimate the radiative flux density distribution over the earn from a set of radiometer measurements at satellite altitude. The technique analyzes measurements from a wide ...

Abstract: Three different data analysis techniques?shape factor, parameter estimation, and deconvolution?have been applied to the same set of satellite radiation measurements to determine their effect on the estimated radiation ...

Abstract: A numerical filter inversion technique that reduces wide-angle satellite measurements to top-of-the-atmosphere radiant exitances has been proposed for the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE). The matrix formulation ...

Abstract: The shape factor technique is routinely used to invert wide-angle radiometric measurements at satellite altitude to flux at the top of the atmosphere. The derivation of a shortwave shape factor requires assumptions on both ...

Abstract: The problem of relating satellite measurements from wide field-of-view (WFOV) radiometers to the radiant exitance emitted from the top of the atmosphere is treated. The problem is formulated as an integral equation to be ...

Abstract: Derivation of top of atmosphere radiative fluxes requires the use of measured satellite radiances and assumptions about the anisotropy of the Earth's radiation field. The primary modification of the Earth's anisotropy is ...

Abstract: The earth radiation budget satellite (ERBS) has made broadband scanner measurements of the earth radiance for over 5 years. The redundancy between the shortwave, longwave, and total scanning radiometers and data averages ...

Abstract: One year of longwave radiation data from July 1975 through June 1976 from the Nimbus 6 satellite Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) experiment is analyzed by representing the longwave radiation field by a spherical harmonic ...

Abstract: A new method for determining unfiltered shortwave (SW), longwave (LW), and window radiances from filtered radiances measured by the Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite instrument is presented. ...

Abstract: Each Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument contains three scanning thermistor bolometer radiometric channels. These channels measure broadband radiances in the shortwave (0.3?5.0 ?m), total (0.3?>100 ...