Abstract: Thin cirrus clouds (with optical depths τ ? 1) play a potentially important role in the earth's atmosphere. However, their tenuous nature makes them difficult to detect, and as a result there are few quantitative, global ...

Abstract: The processes that contribute to the absorption of infrared radiation by atmospheric ice crystals are studied. The processes are separated into the geometric optics (i.e., refraction, internal, and external reflection) and ...

Abstract: This study is intended to illustrate the potential advantage of combining lidar measurements and the split-window technique based on the infrared spectral information contained at the 8.65-, 11.15-, and 12.05-?m bands for ...

Abstract: A thin cirrus cloud thermal infrared radiative transfer model has been developed for application to cloudy satellite data assimilation. This radiation model was constructed by combining the Optical Path Transmittance ...

Abstract: A new technique for ascertaining the thermodynamic cloud phase from high-spectral-resolution ground-based infrared measurements made by the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) is presented. This technique ...