Abstract: Eigenvectors, or empirical orthogonal functions, have been used to study the relationship between the St. Louis heat island and land use and meteorological parameters. The data used in this study consisted of observations ...

Abstract: The results of an analysis of simultaneous measurements of incident solar radiation from six locations in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri are described. The measurements were taken continuously from September 1975 through ...

Abstract: Measurements of the downward solar radiant flux in the St. Louis, Mo., area are compared with predictionsfrom an approximate solution to the radiative transfer equation. The atmospheric aerosols were assumedto have a power ...

Abstract: Atmospheric turbidity (aerosol optical thickness) was measured with sunphotometers across the Los Angeles Basin. Automobiles were used for east-west traverses of the metropolitan area (a distance of ?100 km) on two days ...

Abstract: As part of the Los Angeles Reactive Pollutant Project (September?November 1973) continuous measurements were made of incident ultraviolet and total solar irradiance at six sites (five urban and one nonurban) over the Basin. ...

Abstract: The formation of dew or frost on the outer glass hemisphere of pyranometers was found to cause erroneous values of incident hemispheric solar radiation. An air flow system was designed to continually ventilate the instrument ...

Abstract: The study presents an analysis of atmospheric CO2 measurements at Ocean Weather Station P (50°N, 145°W) and sea surface temperatures over the North Pacific for the period 1974?78. The results show that during 1976 and 1977 ...

Abstract: Some 8500 observations of atmospheric turbidity, taken at Raleigh, North Carolina from July 1969 to July 1975 are analyzed for within-day and day-to-day variations and their dependence on meteorological parameters. The ...