Abstract: A study has been made of infrared radiative transfer through a regular array of cuboidal clouds which considers the interaction of the sides of the clouds with each other and the ground. The theory is developed for black ...

Abstract: A structural-stochastic image model is developed for the analysis and synthesis of cloud images. The ability of the model to characterize the visual appearance of cloud fields observed by satellite with a limited number ...

Abstract: The transport of infrared radiation in a single cuboidal cloud has been modeled using a variable azimuth two-stream (VATS) approximation. Computations have been made at 10 ?m for a Deirmendjian (1969) C-1 water cloud of ...

Abstract: The complex index of refraction for various carbonaceous materials is presented for wavelengths from 0.3????20?. An ensemble of spherical carbon dust particles represented by two size distributions typical of urban aerosols ...

Abstract: A modeling method for the quantitative description of remotely sensed cloud field images is presented. A two-dimensional texture modeling scheme based on one-dimensional time series procedures is adopted for this purpose. ...

Abstract: A technique is described in which forecasts of the locations of features associated with marine cyclones may be improved through the use of microwave integrated water vapor (IWV) imagery and image warping of forecast ...

Abstract: This study has applied computerized pattern analysis techniques to the location and classification of feature of several mature extratropical cyclones that were depicted in GOES satellite images. These features include the ...

Abstract: The usefulness of cloud classification for detecting and quantifying air temperature and humidity anomalies above the ocean surface is examined. Cloud fields are classified in 20 classes following the automated method of ...

Abstract: This study compares the surface rainfall retrieved from the Goddard profiling (GPROF; version 5) algorithm with Kwajalein ground-based radar (KR) observations at 0.1°, 0.25°, and 1° resolutions. Comparisons of the ...

Abstract: Radiances from clouds observed in visible and infrared images obtained from the SMS-2, GOES-2, and GOES-4 satellites have been used to estimate rainfall by means of a pattern recognition algorithm that was applied to single ...