Abstract: Surface solar irradiance (SW?) was derived over the extended Amazon Basin using AVHRR observations from polar-orbiting satellites during four July months (1983?1986). Observations from the geostationary satellite GOES for ...

Abstract: The usefulness of satellites in climate research is primarily due to the ability to produce global, uniformly distributed, long term records of observations. To achieve efficiency in storing, there is a need to compromise ...

Abstract: During the last few years, the feasibility of deriving surface radiation budget (SRB) components from satellite observations has been demonstrated and a better understanding of the need for SRB information in climate ...

Abstract: Concern about possible effects of a steady increase in CO2 on the earth's climate, and the fact that current estimates of sources and sinks of CO2 do not balance, generated interest to improve knowledge of rates at which ...

Abstract: Experiments were performed to examine the sensitivity of computed solar fluxes using a delta-Eddington model to recent parameterizations of cloud albedo of single scattering and asymmetry factor, In particular, the changes ...

Abstract: In an earlier study, Pinker et al. have shown that the daily average net radiation at the top of the atmosphere is highly correlated with the daily average net radiation at the surface. A regression formalism was derived ...

Abstract: A unique set of micrometeorological data was obtained during a 1967?70 multidisciplinary environmental field program in a tropical forest environment. The program was under the sponsorship of the Advanced Research Project ...

Abstract: Using approximately 25 years of rehabilitated global solar radiation measurements, an analysis of the asymmetry of global solar radiation around solar noon was performed for three climatic regions of the United states ...

Abstract: A modified form of Lettau's evapoclimatonomy model is used to calculate the model response functions for runoff, soil moisture, change of soil moisture with time, and evapotranspiration. The model is implemented for the ...

Abstract: The evapoclimatonomy model of Lettau (as implemented in Part I by Pinker and Corio) was designed to be applied on climatic time scales. The validity of the model on shorter time scales could extend its usefulness beyond ...