Sentences with phrase «cloud climatology»

Abbreviations AMO — Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation CO2 — Carbon Dioxide ENSO — El Niño Southern Oscillation GCR — Galactic Cosmic Ray IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IR — Infra - Red radiation ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ITO — Into The Ocean [Band of Wavelengths approx 200nm to 1000nm] PDO — Pacific Decadal Oscillation RF — Radiative Forcing SORCE — Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment SST — Sea Surface Temperature SW — Short Wave Wm - 2 or W / m2 — Watts per square metre WUWT — wattsupwiththat.com

Two systematic calibrations have been compiled for the visible radiances measured by the series of AVHRR instruments flown on the NOAA operational polar weather satellites: one by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, anchored on NASA ER - 2 under - flights in the 1980s and early 1990s and covering the period 1981 - 2009, and one by the PATMOS - x project, anchored on comparisons to the MODIS instruments on the AQUA and TERRA satellites in the 2000s and covering the period 1979 - 2010 (this result also includes calibration for the near - IR channels).

Data on how many and how thick clouds were, and cloud top pressure and temperature, came from NASA's International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP).

Kollias, P., G. Tselioudis, and B.A. Albrecht, 2007: Cloud climatology at the Southern Great Plains and the layer structure, drizzle, and atmospheric modes of continental stratus.

Zonally averaged cloud climatology: London (1957).

In a recent article entitled «Can the Earth's Albedo and Surface Temperatures Increase Together,» that appeared in EOS, Enric Palle and co-authors use recently released cloud data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) to explain how it is possible for the Earth to be warming even as it's albedo is increasing.

The most notable satellite - based cloud dataset is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)(Rossow & Schiffer 1991).

Using cloud cover data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and neutron monitors, they report that total cloud cover over the mid-latitude oceans exhibits a positive correlation with GCRs.

Earlier satellite data (International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP - FD NASA) shows a substantial step increase in cloud at the turn of the century.

Bishop, J.K.B., W.B. Rossow, and E.G. Dutton, 1997: Surface solar irradiance from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project 1983 - 1991.

The changes in both satellite derived and measured surface insolation data are also in line with changes in global cloudiness provided by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), which show an increase until the late 1980s and a decrease thereafter, on the order of 5 % from the late 1980s to 2002.

To see if that was the case, Tselioudis and his colleagues analyzed the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project data set, which combines cloud data from operational weather satellites, including those run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to provide a 30 - year record of detailed cloud observations.

Palle and Laken 2013 combined two different sources of satellite — the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS ¬)-- ¬ data to provide a record of cloud cover.

With this final correction, the ERBS Nonscanner - observed decadal changes in tropical mean LW, SW, and net radiation between the 1980s and the 1990s now stand at 0.7, -2.1, and 1.4 W m ^ 2, respectively, which are similar to the observed decadal changes in the High - Resolution Infrared Radiometer Sounder (HIRS) Pathfinder OLR and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) version FD record but disagree with the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder ERB record.

Marsh, Nigel, Galactic cosmic ray and El Niño — Southern Oscillation trends in International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project D2 low - cloud properties, J. Geophysical Research, V. 108, No.

Data source: The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP).

The program also involves the application of satellite simulator software (COSP simulator package) that creates model output compatible with the retrievals of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) as well as CloudSat, CALIPSO, MODIS, and other satellite instruments.

International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP - FD)-- NASA — 2014.

Adapted from Climate4You, http://www.climate4you.com/, data from International Cloud Climatology Project 36.

Consistency between EECRA upper - level cloud cover anomalies and those from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) during 1984 — 1997 suggests the surface - observed trends are real.

IBM Corporation, 174 Ice age, 2, 66 - 67, 72, 79 - 80, 82 - 83, 108 Ice cap, 4, 7, 52 - 53, 76, 101 - 102, 104 - 108, 111, 240 Ice cores, 75 - 79, 98, 107 Iceland, 57 Idso, Craig, 62, 139 Ifft, George, 103 Illarionov, Andrei, 153 India, 11, 29, 68, 109, 135, 188, 226, 242 - 243 Indian Ocean, 68, 109 Indonesia, 29, 38, 58 - 59 Inhofe, James, 180 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 5 - 6, 9, 14, 16, 30, 35 - 37, 49, 52, 56, 58, 62 - 67, 69, 74 - 77, 79, 81 - 82, 90 - 91, 93, 96, 111, 116 - 117, 122, 125, 135, 139, 145 - 146, 152 - 161, 166 - 167, 180, 231, 237 - 238, 240, 241 Assessment report, 6, 14, 16, 48, 51, 56, 63 - 66, 75, 79, 87 - 88, 110, 116, 120, 155 - 162, 164 - 167, 170, 238 - 239, 241 International Climate Science Coalition, 142 International Energy Agency, 184, 188 - 189, 221 International Institute of Sustainable Development, 204 International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, 87, 95 International Union for Conservation of Nature, 157 Iran, 34 Ireland, 23 Isotopes, 76 Italy, 23, 134, 187 Ivory Coast, 39

The operational data - collection phase of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) began in July 1983 as an element of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP).

The effect of large - scale model time step and multiscale coupling frequency on cloud climatology, vertical structure, and rainfall extremes in a superparameterized global climate model.

The purpose of this paper is to compare observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission, the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, the International Satellite Cloud Climatology...

Now the researchers plan to study other areas in the Amazon where deforestation has created much more uniform land cover to find out whether mesoscale circulations still play a major role in cloud climatology.

In this case, check out the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, ISCCP.

Using monthly - averaged global satellite records from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP [5]-RRB- and the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in conjunction with Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) extended and reconstructed SST (ERSST) dataset [7] we have examined the reliability of long - term cloud measurements.

«The authors find that the simulation of the present - day mean cloud climatology for this region in the GCMs is very poor and that the cloud — climate feedbacks vary widely among the GCMs.

Other studies analyzing satellite data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) such as Chang and Coakley (2007) and Eitzen et al. (2008) have indicated that cloud optical depth of low marine clouds might be expected to decrease with increasing temperature.

Data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations, and the National Weather Service reveal another, more fundamental impediment: November skies suddenly turn cloudy.

The UC San Diego study analyzed age - adjusted incidence rates of leukemia in 172 countries from GLOBOCAN, an international agency for research on cancer that is part of the World Health Organization, comparing that information with cloud cover data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project.

Combs, C. L., et al. (2010), An effort to improve marine stratus forecasts using satellite cloud climatologies for the Eureka, CA region, paper presented at the 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Am.

Not exact matches

Also, the brief period I spent scanning abstracts [no time this week to read papers] indicates a difference of opinion suggesting whether there is a correlation between clouds and CRF (including a no by Balling and Cerveny Theoretical and Applied Climatology 75:3 - 4 pp. 225 - 231 — which may be a good indicator as there was a skeptic flurry last year over connecting CRF to climate as another try at natural causes being responsible for recent climate change).

But the tweaking is not done on the sensitivity to CO2 but to the present day climatology — of rainfall, clouds etc..

... This study uses the GFDL GCM in conjunction with monthly mean sulfate climatology from the MOZART chemistry - transport model and relates cloud droplet number concentrations to sulfate mass concentrations using an empirical relationship [Boucher and Lohmann, 1995].

Given that climatology is embryonic and the scientists obviously haven't got a clue about clouds, solar effects or just about anything else, what a totally unscientific and preposterous basis for policy decisions.

However, one would want a predictor that has not been used to specifically tune the behavior of boundary layer clouds, perhaps seasonal change rather than annual climatology.

We can argue about many aspects related to climatology (such as rate of temperature increase & measurement statistics, etc.) but these issues tend to be far too complex for most people and to my mind tend to cloud judgment.

The wide range of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger variety of information about the project and its data products for a much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).

«A Climatology of Surface Cloud Radiative Effects at the ARM Tropical Western Pacific Sites.»

O'Dell, C. W., Wentz, F. J. & Bennartz, R. Cloud liquid water path from satellite - based passive microwave observations: a new climatology over the global oceans.

Almost all climatologists work within a narrow slice of the total climatology pie: solar variations, the oceans, atmospheric circulation, heat transfer, cloud formation, proxies for past variability, climate models,... but very few if any, have a synoptic view of the entire field.

From solar influence weighting to % of white ground cover to when are clouds on the dayside VS lack of clouds on the nightside, we have miles to go before gaining a good understanding of cause and effect with climatology.

Tselioudis, G., and P. Kollias, 2007: Evaluation of ECMWF cloud type simulations at the ARM Southern Great Plains site using a new cloud type climatology.

Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) values (Huffman et al. 2009) are considered most reliable for precipitation (Trenberth et al. 2007b), while results from CloudSat (e.g., Stephens and Haynes 2007) may help improve on these, with prospects mainly for increases in precipitation owing to undersampling low warm clouds.