Abstract: An empirical method to measure the spectral surface albedo of surfaces from LANDSAT imagery is presented and analyzed. The empiricism in the method is due only to the fact that three parameters of the solution must be ...

Abstract: A simple criterion is presented for determining whether the combined local atmospheric infrared cooling rate at a given height in the presence of two gases, absorbing in the same spectral region, is less than or greater ...

Abstract: Representative average values of the absorption to backscatter ratio of the aerosols in two typical synoptic conditions, namely cloudless khamsinic days and normal cloudless days, have been deduced from four years of data ...

Abstract: Simultaneous measurements of optical depth and Size distribution in a dust storm are presented. The measured and derived properties of the aerosol are compared with each other and with other results published in the ...

Abstract: The mass of natural aerosol injected into the atmosphere by desert wind systems of the Khamsinic type has been estimated from long series of normal-incidence spectral solar radiation measurements and from synoptic analysis ...

Abstract: A method is suggested for introducing long-term interaction between the geobotanic state and climate (a biogeophysical feedback mechanism) into climate models. It is based upon making the geobotanic state, characterized ...

Abstract: Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) and Thematic Mapper (TM) data, with 80 and 30 m spatial resolution, respectively, have been employed to study the spatial structure of boundary-layer and intertropical convergence zone ...

Abstract: Histograms of nearest neighbor spacings of fair weather cumulus at 15 locations Over the world's oceans are presented based on the analysis of high resolution LANDSAT 3 Multispectral Scanner images for amounts of cloud ...

Abstract: An efficient longwave scheme for climate models originally suggested by Sasamori is modified to correctly simulate the water vapor-temperature feedback mechanism. It is found that the modified scheme with a fixed cloud-top ...

Abstract: A parameterization of quasi-geostrophic eddy transport that takes into account the time variation of the eddy transfer coefficients according to Green's theory is studied. A relation proposed by Green connects the vertical ...