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RISModel Calculations of Solar Spectral Irradiance in the 3.7-μm Band for Earth Remote Sensing Applications
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Since the launch of the first Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument aboard the Television and Infrared Observational Satellite (TIROS-N), measurements in the 3.7-?m atmospheric window have been exploited ...
The Plane-Parallel Albedo Bias of Liquid Clouds from MODIS Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The authors present the global plane-parallel shortwave albedo bias of liquid clouds for two months, July 2003 and January 2004. The cloud optical properties necessary to perform the bias calculations come from the operational ...
MODIS-Derived Spatially Complete Surface Albedo Products: Spatial and Temporal Pixel Distribution and Zonal Averages
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Five years (2000?04) of spatially complete snow-free land surface albedo data have been produced using high-quality-flagged diffuse bihemispherical (white sky) and direct-beam directional hemispherical (black sky) land ...
Distribution and Radiative Forcing of Tropical Thin Cirrus Clouds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: To understand the radiative impact of tropical thin cirrus clouds, the frequency of occurrence and optical depths of these clouds have been derived. ?Thin? cirrus clouds are defined here as being those that are not detected ...
Reconciling Simulated and Observed Views of Clouds: MODIS, ISCCP, and the Limits of Instrument Simulators
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he properties of clouds that may be observed by satellite instruments, such as optical thickness and cloud-top pressure, are only loosely related to the way clouds are represented in models of the atmosphere. One way to ...
Evaluation of Cirrus Cloud Properties Derived from MODIS Data Using Cloud Properties Derived from Ground-Based Observations Collected at the ARM SGP Site
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Terra satellite has been collecting global data since March 2000 and the one on the Aqua satellite since June 2002. In this paper, cirrus cloud ...
Retrieval of Ice Cloud Optical Thickness and Effective Particle Size Using a Fast Infrared Radiative Transfer Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: computationally efficient radiative transfer model (RTM) is developed for the inference of ice cloud optical thickness and effective particle size from satellite-based infrared (IR) measurements and is aimed at potential ...
High Cloud Properties from Three Years of MODIS Terra and Aqua Collection-4 Data over the Tropics
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study surveys the optical and microphysical properties of high (ice) clouds over the Tropics (30°S?30°N) over a 3-yr period from September 2002 through August 2005. The analyses are based on the gridded level-3 cloud ...
Effects of Aerosols on the Radiative Properties of Clouds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The influence of anthropogenic aerosols, in the form of ship exhaust effluent, on the microphysics and radiative properties of marine stratocumulus is studied using data gathered from the U.K. Met. Office C-130 and the ...
Bulk Scattering Properties for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds. Part II: Narrowband Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study examines the development of bulk single-scattering properties of ice clouds, including single-scattering albedo, asymmetry factor, and phase function, for a set of 1117 particle size distributions obtained from ...