Abstract: The land skin temperature, an important feature for agricultural monitoring, convective processes, and the earth?s radiation budget, is monitored from limited-view satellite imagers. The angular dependence of this parameter ...

Abstract: Three years of surface and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) data from the Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site are used to evaluate the NASA ...

Abstract: A cloud rift is characterized as a large-scale, persistent area of broken, low-reflectivity stratocumulus clouds usually surrounded by a solid deck of stratocumulus. A rift observed off the coast of California was investigated ...