Abstract: An earlier parameterization that relates the outgoing solar flux at the top of the atmosphere to the flux absorbed at the surface is modified and extended to allow for variations in atmospheric properties that were not ...

Abstract: Measurements of radiation budgets, both at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and at the surface, are essential to understanding the earth's climate. The TOA budgets can, in principle, be measured directly from satellites, ...

Abstract: To investigate the feasibility of retrieving spectral aerosol optical thickness from polarization measurements, the degree of polarization of the sky radiation was measured at a 90° angle from the solar direction in the ...