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RISClear-Sky Criteria and Cloud Cover over Desert Areas from Meteosat Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In order to use the diurnal variation of Meteosat visible channel data to help determine the bidirectional reflectance function for desert areas, criteria must be established for identifying cloud-free scenes. The authors ...
Determination of the Shortwave Anisotropic Function for Clear-Sky Desert Scenes from Meteosat Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Determination of planetary albedo on the basis of satellite observations of reflected shortwave (SW) radiances requires taking into account the anisotropic (non-Lambertian) reflectance properties of the earth?atmosphere ...
Improved Diurnal Interpolation of Reflected Broadband Shortwave Observations Using ISCCP Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The multisatellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) was designed to provide complete temporal coverage of the solar-reflected and earth-emitted radiation. Following operation of ERBE scanners on as few as one and ...
Regional Diurnal Albedo Climatology and Diurnal Time Extrapolation of Reflected Solar Flux Observations: Application to the ScaRaB Record
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A regional (2.5° ? 2.5° resolved) diurnal (hourly) albedo climatology for low and midlatitudes is derived for each month from the 5?-yr narrow-field-of-view data record obtained from the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite ...
Ground Characterization of the Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) Flight Model 1
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) is a satellite-based radiometer for measurements of the planetary radiation budget. It was launched in January 1994 on a Russian METEOR-3 platform and provided excellent data from ...