Abstract: The procedure used by NOAA to estimate the outgoing longwave irradiance at the top of the atmosphere from an array of satellite window region measurements includes the averaging of the flux values inferred from the columns ...

Abstract: The technique used by NOAA to estimate the outgoing longwave flux from 10 ?m window radiance observations has been reexamined because the data that result from the application of the empirically determined regression ...

Abstract: A new technique for estimating outgoing longwave radiation from observations on the NOAA operational satellites has been developed from a regression analysis of radiation model calculations. The technique consists of a ...