Abstract: The scale of cloud clusters occurring in the tropical North Pacific is objectively derived from vidicon data received from the ESSA satellites for July and October 1967 and January and April 1968. Attention is focused on ...

Abstract: Tropospheric height and thickness values derived from Nimbus 3 Satellite Infra-Red Spectrometer (SIRS) sounding data are compared with nearby radiosonde data to determine (a) the accuracy and compatibility of SIRS data ...

Abstract: A method to depict quasi-continuous surface temperature features is presented. Half-hourly GOES window channel brightness temperature determinations are employed to monitor time changes in the surface temperature field. ...

Abstract: During February and March 1988, a limited field experiment was conducted over the Gulf of Mexico to gather data on two phenomena: air mass modification over the Loop Current, and return flow characteristics of modified ...