Abstract: To obtain temperature profiles from radiances measured from satellites, the radiances are first corrected for cloud contamination in the field of view. Many current techniques assume identical cloud height in adjacent ...

Abstract: The retrieval of vertical temperature profiles from radiances measured from a satellite is a difficult inversion problem that has been solved to varying degrees of accuracy by several approaches. A method that uses a ...

Abstract: Now that satellite retrieval are being used in global forecasts, there is increased interest in using satellite retrievals for use such as mesoscale forecasts and inputs to crop models. These uses require more accurate ...

Abstract: Measurements of infrared radiation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration series of satellites are used to retrieve atmospheric temperature, moisture, and ozone. It is well known that the measurements ...

Abstract: Temperature sensors on radiosondes measure a temperature that is a balance between the temperature of the air and the temperature of the radiation environment of the sensor. Because of this balance, the temperature reported ...

Abstract: For future satellite instruments, two scan geometries have been proposed: cross-track and conical scanning. With the mixtures of possible instruments, a future sounding suite may consist of all cross track, all conical, ...

Abstract: In the design of satellite sounding instruments there are many factors that determine the accuracies of the retrieved temperature and moisture profiles. However, the three major factors are: instrument noise, number of ...

Abstract: Deep-layer mean temperatures from Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) observations have been used by scientists to study trends and interannual variations of tropospheric and lower-stratospheric temperature. The spatial resolution ...

Abstract: Several recent papers have reported that temperatures from satellites lack the variance found in radiosonde temperatures. Because of these results, we performed an experiment to distinguish between limitations of the ...

Abstract: The split window technique makes use of two differentially absorbing channels in the 11 ?m region to remove the attenuating effects of atmospheric absorption so as to achieve a better estimate of the underlying skin ...