Abstract: The soil moisture status at a cacao estate in Trinidad, W.I., has been estimated by a climatological method for six years. A relation (r = ?0.76**) between the logarithm of the monthly number of disused pods and the moisture ...

Abstract: Cloud-generated radiative heating is computed for January zonal mean conditions for low and midclouds. For both cases, the strongest influence was found to be in the low troposphere, with marked differences in signs and ...

Abstract: The theory is presented of the effect of radiative heating and cooling by clouds on the available potential energy (APE). This provides a measure of the influence of clouds on the general circulation. Absorption and ...

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Abstract: Data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment scanning radiometer aboard the NOAA-9 operational meteorological satellite are used to investigate the spatial variability of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). Daily and ...

Abstract: The relationship between monthly mean outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and the mean moist static energy of the lower troposphere is shown to be similar to the relationship between monthly mean OLR and sea surface temperature ...

Abstract: Outgoing longwave radiation data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment show that the meridional migration of tropical convergence zones (TCZ) varies greatly from one region to another in the Tropics. In Africa, the ...

Abstract: Wide-field-of-view (WFOV) radiometers have been flown as part of the Earth Radiation Budget instrument on the Nimbus 6 and 7 spacecraft and as part of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) instruments aboard the ...

Abstract: The shape factor technique is routinely used to invert wide-angle radiometric measurements at satellite altitude to flux at the top of the atmosphere. The derivation of a shortwave shape factor requires assumptions on both ...

Abstract: The problem of relating satellite measurements from wide field-of-view (WFOV) radiometers to the radiant exitance emitted from the top of the atmosphere is treated. The problem is formulated as an integral equation to be ...