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RISStatistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part IV: Boundary Layer Cloud Objects during 1998 El Niño
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Three boundary layer cloud object types?overcast, stratocumulus, and cumulus?that occurred over the Pacific Ocean during January?August 1998 are identified from the Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System (CERES) ...
A Parameterization for Computing Grid-Averaged Solar Fluxes for Inhomogeneous Marine Boundary Layer Clouds. Part II: Validation Using Satellite Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Independent Pixel approximation (IPA) is one of the simplest methods of computing solar radiative fluxes for inhomogencous clouds. It claims that if p(τ) is a normalized probability density function for cloud optical ...
Analysis of Spatial Inhomogeneities in Cumulus Clouds Using High Spatial Resolution Landsat Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Aircraft observations and high resolution Landsat Multispectral Scanner digital data are used to determine the sizes of spatial inhomogeneities (?holes?) in cumulus clouds. The majority of holes are found near cloud edges, ...
Cloud-Property Retrieval Using Merged HIRS and AVHRR Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A technique is developed that uses a multispectral, multiresolution (MSMR) method to improve the overall retrieval of mid-to high-level cloud properties by combining HIRS sounding channel data with higher spatial resolution ...
Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part I: Methodology and Preliminary Results of the 1998 El Niño/2000 La Niña
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study presents an objective classification methodology that uses Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite data to classify distinct ?cloud objects? defined by cloud-system types, sizes, geographic locations, and matched ...
Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part II: Tropical Convective Cloud Objects during 1998 El Niño and Evidence for Supporting the Fixed Anvil Temperature Hypothesis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Characteristics of tropical deep convective cloud objects observed over the tropical Pacific during January?August 1998 are examined using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission/Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System ...
The 27–28 October 1986 FIRF IFO Cirrus Case Study: Comparison of Radiative Transfer Theory with Observations by Satellite and Aircraft
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Observations of cirrus and altocumulus clouds during the First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project Regional Experiment (FIRE) are compared to theoretical models of cloud radiative properties. Three tests are ...