Abstract: Statistics of cloud characteristics over North America have been accumulated for the past 2 yr. The frequency of cloud cover with the associated heights and infrared attenuation were charted using the C02 channel radiometric ...

Abstract: A CO2 cloud tracking technique to determine simultaneous heights and velocities of cloud motion winds is presented. Using animated CO2 channel imagery from VAS, multi-level cloud situations are separated into high, middle ...

Abstract: GOES VAS multispectral observations in the carbon dioxide absorption band at 15 ?m have been used to compile cloud-cover statistics over the continental United States for the past 4 years. The CO2 technique calculates both ...

Abstract: A method to depict quasi-continuous surface temperature features is presented. Half-hourly GOES window channel brightness temperature determinations are employed to monitor time changes in the surface temperature field. ...

Abstract: The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) was used to measure the infrared radiative properties and the temperature of the Gulf of Mexico during a 5-day oceanographic cruise in January 1995. The ocean skin ...

Abstract: ver about 70% of Earth's surface and play a dominant role in the energy and water cycle of our planet. Only satellite observations provide a continuous survey of the state of the atmosphere over the entire globe and across ...