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• Satellite Calibration
• Overpass-Predictor-V2
• A Polynomial Representation of 6.3µm Water Vapor and 4.3 µm CO2 Atmospheric Transmissivities
• Magnitude of the Radiative Effects of the Sahara Dust Layer
• Orbital and cloud sampling analyses for multisatellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiments
• Comparison of longwave diurnal models applied to simulations of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• Cloudsat-Event-Viewer
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• Contrails
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• Comparison of CERES-MODIS and ICESat GLAS cloud amounts.
• Retrievals of Thick Cloud Optical Depth from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) by Calibration of Solar Background Signal.
• Comparison of GLAS, CALIPSO, and imager-derived cloud properties
• Validation of real-time GOES products using GLAS and CALIPSO data
• CALIPSO optical depth distributions and comparison with GLAS
• Diurnal variations in cloud structure determined from CALISPO and ICESat lidar data
• Depolarization ratio and attenuated backscatter for nine cloud types: analyses based on collocated CALIPSO lidar and MODIS measurements
• Summer dust aerosols detected from CALIPSO over the Tibetan Plateau
• Global statistics of liquid water content and effective number concentration of water clouds over ocean derived from combined CALIPSO and MODIS measurements
• Estimating the top altitude of optically thick ice clouds from thermal infrared satellite observations using CALIPSO data
• Retrieving cloud properties for multilayered clouds using simulated GOES-R data
• Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress
• Dusty cloud properties determined from surface and satellite observations over Asia during PACDEX
• Evaluation of CERES-MODIS cloud properties using CALIPSO and CloudSat data
• "Characterizing radiation fields in the atmosphere using a cloud-aerosol-radiation product from integrated CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO, and CloudSat data."
• Comparison of cloud properties from CALIPSO-CloudSat and geostationary satellite data
• Preliminary comparison of CloudSat liquid water path to passive satellite estimates
• Boundary layer lapse rate in cloudy areas derived using CALIPSO data
• Integrated cloud-aerosol-radiation product using CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO, and CloudSat data
• Use of active remote sensors to improve the accuracy of cloud top heights derived from thermal satellite observations
• Examination of the relationship between infrared window radiance and the total outgoing longwave flux using satellite data
• Relating satellite and surface detection of contrails to numerical weather output.
• Optical properties of ice particles in young contrails
• Assessment of global annual atmospheric energy balance from satellite observations
• An evaluation of operational GOES-derived single-layer cloud top heights with ARSCL over the ARM Southern Great Plains site
• Cloud detection in non-polar regions for CERES using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS data
• Calibration of solar background signal for retrievals of cloud optical depth from the Geoscience Laser Altimetry System (GLAS)
• Estimation of Asian dust aerosol effect on cloud radiation forcing using Fu-Liou radiative model and CERES measurements
• Using observations of deep convective systems to constrain atmospheric column absorption of solar radiation in the optically thick limit
• Uncertainties associated with the surface texture of ice particles in satellite-based retrieval of cirrus clouds: Part II. Effect of particle surface roughness on retrieved cloud optical thickness and effective particle size
• Uncertainties associated with the surface texture of ice particles in satellite-based retrieval of cirrus clouds: Part I. Single-scattering properties of ice crystals with surface roughness
• Satellite estimates of surface short-wave fluxes: Issues of implementation
• Assessment of the visible channel calibrations of the TRMM VIRS and MODIS on Aqua and Terra
• Comparison of CERES-MODIS stratus cloud properties with ground-based measurements at the DOE ARM Southern Great Plains site
• AMF-China
• CLASS-Automated Ordering System
• Gridded-VISST-Products
• USB-Survey
• Validation of multilayered cloud properties using A-Train satellite measurments
• DAACGET Interface
• VOCALS-REx
• Process Monitor
• Deriving Marine-Boundary-Layer Lapse Rate from Collocated CALIPSO, MODIS, and AMSR-E Data to Study Global Low-Cloud Height Statistics
• Long-range transport and vertical structure of Asian dust from CALIPSO and surface measurements during PACDEX
• Examination of viewing zenith angle dependence of cloud heights derived from thermal infrared satellite observations
• Comparison of Cloud Properties from MODIS and GOES During TC4
• Validation of GOES and MODIS satellite-derived cloud properties using TC4 data
• Validation of satellite-derived cloud physical and microphysical properties with aircraft measurements from TC4
• Comparison of Outgoing Radiation During TC4: CERES vs Model Calculations
• Comparison of Cloud Heights from MODIS, GOES, and the ER2 CPL during TC4
• Calibration comparisons between SEVIRI, MODIS, and GOES data
• Calibration comparisons between SEVIRI, MODIS, and GOES data
• The continuous monitoring of desert dust using an infrared-based dust detection and retrieval method
• Comparison of cloud properties from Meteosat-8 and surface observations
• MSG SEVIRI Applications for Weather and Climate: Cloud Properties and Calibrations
• FRAM-S-2009
• NETCDF-PLOT
• AMF-AZORES
• Dust cloud properties and radiative forcing over dust source and remote regions derived from CERES and CALIPSO data during PACDEX
• PHS
• The GCM Oriented CALIPSO Cloud Product (CALIPSO-GOCCP)
• Near-real time cloud retrievals from operational and research meteorological satellites
• NASA-Langley web-based operational real-time cloud retrieval products from geostationary satellites
• Comparison of RUC condensate analyses and forecasts with satellite-derived cloud properties
• Cloud and hydrometeor analysis using metar, radar, and satellite data within the RUC/Rapid-Refresh model
• Rapid Calibration of Operational and Research Meteorological Satellite Imagers. Part I: Evaluation of Research Satellite Visible Channels as References
• Rapid Calibration of Operational and Research Meteorological Satellite Imagers. Part II: Comparison of Infrared Channels.
• Assessment of the visible channel calibrations of the TRMM VIRS and MODIS on Aqua and Terra
• Calibration of GOES Using Satellite and ARESE Aircraft Data
• Calibration of Geostationary Satellite Imager Data for ARM Using AVHRR and VIRS
• The Calibration of NOAA AVHRR Visible Radiances with VIRS
• On the use of deep convective clouds to calibrate AVHRR data
• The calibration of AVHRR dual gain using Meteosat-8 for NOAA-16 to 18
• Rapid Technique to cross calibrate satellite imager with visible channels
• Transformation of Contrails into Cirrus during SUCCESS
• Parameterization of Reflectance and Effective Emittance for Satellite Remote Sensing of Cloud Properties
• Cloud and Radiative Fields Derived from GOES-8 During SUCCESS and the ARM-UAV Spring 1996 Flight Series
• Cirrus and Contrail Microphysical Properties Derived From Satellite Data During SUCCESS
• Comparison of In Situ and Satellite-Derived Cloud Properties During SUCCESS
• A modified method for inferring upper cloud top height using the GOES-12 imager 10.7- and 13.3-µm data
• A 10-year climatology of cloud cover and vertical distribution derived from both surface and GOES observations over the DOE ARM SGP site
• Effect of inhomogeneity of ice crystals on retrieving ice cloud optical thickness and particle size
• Retrieval of ice cloud properties using variable phase functions
• Nighttime retrieval of cloud microphysical properties for GOES-R
• Cloud retrievals from GOES-R
• Dynamic Satellite Imagery
• Where is the best site on Earth? Domes A, B, C and F, and Ridges A and B
• Global Geo Home Page
• Viewing Geometry Program
• Effect of biomass burning on marine stratocumulus clouds off the California coast
• Validation of satellite-derived cloud properties using TC4 data
• NASA-Langley web-based operational real-time cloud retrieval products from geostationary satellites
• Evaluation of the NASA GISS Single Column Model simulated clouds using combined surface and satellite observations
• Retrieval of cirrus cloud ice crystal shapes using visible reflectances from dual-satellite measurements: Preparation Of The Triana Mission
• Estimation of cirrus cloud effective ice crystal shapes using visible reflectances from dual-satellite measurements
• Development of correction factors to derive a global radiation budget from Triana data
• Simulation and Correction of Triana-Viewed Earth Radiation Budget with ERBE/ISCCP data
• Simulation and correction of Triana viewed earth radiation budget with ERBE data
• Earth Radiation Budget From Triana, Correction For Anisotropic Radiances. Presented at Symposium on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
• Triana, An Ideal Platform For Continuous Multiangle Viewing Of Earth. Presented at Symposium on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
• A proposed multiangle dataset using GEO, LEO,and Triana
• Simulation and Correction of Triana Viewed Earth Radian Budget with ERBE Data
• CLOUD PROPERTIES, BRDFS, & INTERSATELLITE CALIBRATIONS FROM TRIANA DATA
• STATUS OF NASA LANGLEY TRIANA ALGORITHMS
• STATUS OF NASA LANGLEY TRIANA RESEARCH
• Simulated Triana-EPIC Earth Views Using MODIS
• TLE-Database
• CloudSAT Archive
• Contrails to Cirrus - Morphology, Microphysics, and Radiative Properties
• Contrails: a double sided sword?
• Basic diagnosis and prediction of persistent contrail occurrence using high-resolution numerical weather analyses/forecasts and logistic regression. Part I: Effects of random error
• Basic diagnosis and prediction of persistent contrail occurrence using high-resolution numerical weather analyses/forecasts and logistic regression. Part II: Evaluation of sample models
• Estimates of cloud radiative forcing in contrail clusters using GOES imagery
• Observations of Aircraft Dissipation Trails from GOES.
• A Case Study of the Development of Contrail Clusters over The Great Lakes
• CONUS contrail frequency and coverage estimated from RUC and flight track data
• Aviation-Produced Aerosols and Cloudiness
• A commercial flight track database for upper tropospheric aircraft emission studies over the USA and southern Canada
• Do contrails significantly reduce daily temperature range?
• Spreading and Growth of Contrails in a Sheared Environment
• Cloud properties determined from GOES and MODIS data during TC4
• Planning and implementation of the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment (TC4)
• The Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS)
• Comparison of GOES-retrieved and in-situ measurements of deep convective anvil cloud microphysical properties during the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment (TC4)
• GOES-12 observations of convective storm variability and evolution during the TC4 field program
• Evaluation of satellite-based upper-troposphere cloud-top height retrievals in multilayer cloud conditions during TC4
• Factors controlling contrail cirrus optical depth
• Radiative Forcing by Contrails
• Cloud Optical Property Retrieval (Subsystem 4.3). Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Volume III - Cloud Analyses and Determination of Improved Top of Atmosphere Fluxes (Subsystem 4)
• Cloud and Radiative Fields Derived from GOES-8 During SUCCESS and the ARM-UAV Spring 1996 Flight Series
• Contrail Occurrence Frequency Over the U.S., April 1993 - April 1994
• Parameterization of Reflectance and Effective Emittance for Satellite Remote Sensing of Cloud Properties
• Global Distribution of Contrail Radiative Forcing
• Contrails
• Contrail frequency over the USA from surface observations
• Contrails, Cirrus Trends, and Climate
• Contrail properties over the eastern North Pacific from AVHRR data
• Update on NASA-Langley satellite cloud and radiation products for the ARM community
• Response to comment on "Contrails, Cirrus Trends, and Climate.
• Contrail coverage derived from 2001 AVHRR data over the continental United States of America and surrounding areas
• A Report of Findings and Recommendations
• Contrails and induced cirrus: Optics and radiation.
• ARM SpartICus
• ARM Home Page
• Detection of dust aerosol by combining CALIPSO active lidar and passive IIR measurements
• CERES Edition-2 cloud property retrievals using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS data, Part II: Examples of average results and comparisons with other data.
• File-Catalog
• Relation of cloud occurrence frequency, overlap, and effective thickness derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat merged cloud vertical profiles
• CERES Calibration
• Observed aerosol and liquid water path relationships in marine stratocumulus
• Examination of CALIPSO cloud detection in broken cloud conditions using high resolution MODIS data
• Global Geo Products
• Enhanced cloud algorithm from collocated CALIPSO, CloudSat and MODIS global boundary layer lapse rate studies
• 4-D water content fields derived from operational satellite data
• Dust aerosol effect on semi-arid climate over northwest China detected from A-Train measurements
• Spectral Response
• GMap-Support
• Improved cloud detection in CERES Edition 3 algorithm and comparison with the CALIPSO Vertical Feature Mask.
• The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Exeperiment (VOCALS-Rex): Goals, platforms, and field operations
• Flight-Track-API
• ACCRI Processing Tool
• AVHRR-CDR
• Calibration of Historical and Future AVHRR and GOES Visible and Near-Infrared Sensors and the Development of a Consistent Long-Term Cloud and Clear-Sky Radiation Property Dataset
• Estimates of cloud radiative forcing in contrail clusters using GOES imagery
• Physical and optical properties of persistent contrails: climatology and interpretation
• Cloud Products Home Page
• Contrail retrievals form MODIS for ACCRI
• LaRC Aircraft Icing
• Contrails
• Formation and spread of aircraft-induced holes in clouds
• Spectral reflectance corrections for satellite intercalibrations using SCIAMACHY data
• Global contrail coverage simulated by CAM5 with the inventory of 2006 global aircraft emissions
• Contrails versus contrail cirrus from a satellite perspective
• Air-traffic moratorium opened window on contrails and climate
• TISA_2_5_Channel
• Hydrometeor assimilation using hourly-updated satellite cloud retrievals over North America in the Rapid Refresh
• Improving aerosol distributions below clouds by assimilating satellite-retrieved droplet number
• Applications for near-real time satellite cloud and radiation products
• Satellite Calibration
• VISST Monthly Averages
• Historical Satellite Imagery/Cloud Products Viewer
• SBAF Database
• OGC Web Processing Service
• Scattering Angles
• Desert-based absolute calibration of successive geostationary visible sensors using a daily exoatmospheric radiance model
• The calibration of geostationary visible imagers using operational hyper-spectral SCIAMACHY radiances
• The Characterization of Deep Convective Clouds as an Invariant Calibration Target and as a Visible Calibration Technique
• The CERES geostationary calibration methodology with emphasis on the desert
• Desert based absolute calibration of visible sensors
• An Initial Assessment of the VIIRS Onboard Calibration Using DCC and Desert Referenced to the Aqua-MODIS Calibration,
• The characterization of deep convective cloud albedo as a calibration target using MODIS reflectances
• Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) for Deep Convective Cloud (DCC) technique of calibrating GEO sensors with Aqua-MODIS for GSICS
• Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) for ray-matching technique of calibrating GEO sensors with Aqua-MODIS for GSICS
• The CERES calibration strategy of the geostationary visible channels for CERES cloud and flux products
• Using SCIAMACHY to improve corrections for spectral band differences when transferring calibration between visible sensors
• RUC Soundings Tool
• Closest
• Zonal-Means
• Production Status
• Solar Constant Comparisons
• Monthly Mean Gridded Product Viewer
• Product Viewer Testing
• CERES - GLOBAL GEOSTATIONARY DATASET
• TISA_HYPERION
• Preliminary new formulas for estimating cloud thickness from satellite imagery based on CloudSat-CALIPSO data
• An online interface for calculating spectral band difference adjustment factors derived from SCIAMACHY data
• A CERES-consistent cloud property climate data record using AVHRR data
• Near-real time satellite-retrieved cloud and surface properties for weather and aviation safety applications
• Cloud hydrometeor assimilation of NASA-LaRC GOES cloud products for RUC/Rapid Refresh
• CERES cloud properties: MODIS, VIIRS, and GEOsats
• CERES Edition 3 cloud retrievals
• sbaf-testing
• Cloud optical depths at night: Going beyond the infrared blackbody limits.
• Enhanced nighttime cloud retrievals
• Non-opaque and opaque ice cloud properties from infrared radiances at 3.7, 6.7, 11.0, and 12.0 µm
• Nighttime retrievals of cloud properties from infrared radiances at 3.7, 6.7, 11.0, and 12.0 µm
• CERES Terra & Aqua Edition 4a SSF Cloud Properties – Accuracy and Validation.
• Estimation of nocturnal opaque ice cloud optical depth and water path from MODIS multispectral infrared radiances using a neural network method
• Overshooting-Tops
• Terra to Aqua Scaling Page
• TISA Tstar
• Orbital and Cloud Sampling Analyses for Multisatellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiments
• Comparison of Longwave Diurnal Models Applied to Simulations of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• Simulation of the Earth's Monthly Average Regional Radiation Balance Derived from Satellite Measurements
• Diurnal Variability of Regional Cloud and Clear-Sky Radiative Parameters Derived from GOES Data, Part I: Analysis Method
• Diurnal Variability of Regional Cloud and Clear-Sky Radiative Parameters Derived from GOES Data, Part II: November 1978 Cloud Distribution
• Diurnal Variability of Regional Cloud and Clear-Sky Radiative Parameters Derived from GOES Data; Part III: November 1978 Radiative Parameters
• Comparison of Regional Clear-Sky Albedos Inferred from Satellite Observations and Model Computations
• Diurnal Variability of the Planetary Albedo: An Appraisal with Satellite Measurements and General Circulation Models
• Angular Radiation Models for Earth-Atmosphere System: Volume I - Shortwave Radiation
• First Estimates of the Diurnal Variation of Longwave Radiation from the Multiple-Satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
• Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• Seasonal Variation of Cloud Radiative Forcing Derived from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• Examination of the Relationship between Infrared Window Radiance and the Total Outgoing Longwave Flux Using Satellite Data
• Interpretation of Seasonal Cloud-Climate Interaction Using Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Data
• Radiative Climate Forcing by the Mt. Pinatubo Eruption
• Absorption of Solar Radiation by Clouds: Observations Versus Models
• A Pinatubo Climate Modeling Investigation. The Effects of Mt. Pinatubo Eruption on the Atmosphere and Climate
• Temporal variability of the radiation budget over the Tibetan Plateau determined from the ERBE satellites
• SCIAMACHY Spectra Plots
• pre-ceres 2.0
• Terra to Aqua Scalaing Page (IR)
• C6 to C5 Scaling Scatter Terra
• C6 to C5 Scaling Scatter Aqua
• GEO Calibration CERES Ed4
• SBAF-GOME2
• SCALING-TEST
• Hyperion Testing
• C6 to C6.1 Scaling Scatter Terra
• C6 to C6.1 Scaling Scatter Aqua
• NPP VIIRS Scaling Scatter
• GOME2 Spectra Plots
• VISST Monthly Averages (Dev/Test)
• SBAF-AIRS
• Hyperion Scaling Page (Development)
• Hyperion Scaling Page
• SCIAMACHY Spectra Enhanced (Development)
• Aqua MODIS C6.1 tp C5 Scaling Factor
• Terra MODIS C6.1 to C5 Scaling Factor
• SBAF Database (DEV)
• CERES Updated Realtim
• GOME2-Spectra-Enhanced
• The radiometric stability and scaling of collection 6 Terra and Aqua-MODIS VIS, NIR, and SWIR spectral bands
• A consistent AVHRR visible calibration record based on multiple methods applicable to the NOAA degrading orbits, Part II: Validation
• A consistent AVHRR visible calibration record based on multiple methods applicable to the NOAA degrading orbits, Part I: Methodology
• A Web-based Tool for Calculating Spectral Band Difference Adjustment Factors Derived from SCIAMACHY Hyper-spectral Data
• Improvements to the Geostationary Visible Imager Ray-Matching Calibration Algorithm for CERES Edition 4
• Optimization of a Deep Convective Cloud Technique in Evaluating the Long-Term Radiometric Stability of MODIS Reflective Solar Bands
• Development of Seasonal BRDF Models to Extend the Use of Deep Convective Clouds as Invariant Targets for Satellite SWIR-Band Calibration
• Geostationary Visible Imager Calibration for the CERES SYN1deg Edition 4 Product
• Results from the Deep Convective Clouds (DCC) based response versus scan-angle (RVS) characterization for the MODIS reflective solar bands
• Consideration of Radiometric Quantization Error in Satellite Sensor Cross-Calibration
• Aqua MODIS C5 to S-NPP VIIRS V001 Scaling Factors
• Aqua MODIS C6.1 to S-NPP VIIRS V001 Scaling Factors
• AIRS Spectra Enhanced
• IASI Spectra Enhanced
• GSaaS Console
• Aqua MODIS C6.1 to S-NPP VIIRS V001 Scaling Factors
• Arun - Stability - SNPP - VIIRS
• TISA Development Home
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