Abstract: The Indian?French Megha-Tropiques mission, scheduled to be launched in 2010, will carry radiation and microwave sensors to study the energy and water cycle in the tropics. The radiation sensor, the third model of the Scanner ...

Abstract: For the determination of the earth radiation budget (ERB) from space, the reflected solar flux and the emitted longwave (LW: 4?100 ?m) fluxes are estimated using radiance measurements made in shortwave (SW: 0.2?4.5 ?m) and ...