Abstract: Methods of determining the spectral brightness temperature, the spectral directional emissivity, and the actual temperature of the earth's surface, and of clouds, from observations of the earth's spectral radiance between ...

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Abstract: Atmospheric temperature profiles, obtained from spectral radiances of the earth between 2160 and 2360 cm?1 measured by a balloonborne, multi-detector, grating spectrometer at 3.5 mb during a 6-hr flight, are described. ...