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RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

The Advanced Spaceborn Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on the Terra satellite captured this image.

They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.

This image, captured by NOAA / NASA's Suomi NPP's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), shows agricultural fires in the northernmost section of the Punjab state of India in October 2017.

Since our radiometer employed an absolute reference, it was possible to obtain absolute background data from the reference region observed around each of the 29 sources investigated that day.

Using a modern version of the Hexagon satellite called the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), the team screened 2276 large glacial lakes in the Himalayas and found that 49 of them have potential flood volumes of over 10 million cubic meters, which are generally considered to be major floods.

Among its instruments is the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which has dramatically improved spatial resolution compared with its predecessor (the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, which earlier produced images of Earth at night).

As the spacecraft swooped 9,000 kilometers above the giant storm, Juno's microwave radiometer peered through the deep layers of cloud, measuring the atmosphere's temperature down hundreds of kilometers.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

Data from the Visible - Infrared Imager / Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the NASA / NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness, and is sending extraordinary images back to Earth giving us a clearer picture of vegetation around the world.

William Rose and his colleagues at Michigan Technological University in Houghton examined the Rabaul cloud using a radiometer on the US NOAA - 12 satellite.

LRO's early results have already caused a stir: The Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment sent back the first global temperature maps of the moon, revealing ultracold pockets in permanently shadowed portions of craters near the south pole.

The orbiting radiometer can not detect ice crystals in opaque regions, however.

The Shallow Radar experiment will peer 30 feet or more below the Martian surface to detect buried water ice; another instrument, an infrared radiometer, will monitor dust storms and other atmospheric disturbances.

The radiometer spikes.

A radiometer shaped like a soup can will detect changes in radiant energy.

Hilary Wilson, EUMETSAT's Sentinel - 3 Project Manager added, «It is very exciting to see all the small scale thermal features clearly captured in the Benguela region and this really demonstrates the potential of the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer.

Juno's radiometer will probe to a depth of about 500 kilometers.

PASADENA, Calif. — When ground controllers begin powering up the Juno spacecraft's science instruments on July 6, one of their most important goals will be to get the microwave radiometer up and running.

The radiometer is charged with taking water - vapor readings that will help locate Jupiter's birthplace in the solar system and plumb its atmospheric structure, including the roots of the mysterious Great Red Spot.

Critically, Juno's microwave radiometer will not simply survey Jupiter's cloud tops — instead, it will peer below the ammonia clouds that shroud most of the planet, which are largely transparent to microwaves.

This is an image of Chile's Atacama Desert captured via the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite on 28 Oct. 2001.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.

A microwave radiometer onboard the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter could soon reveal where and how the giant planet formed

The craft's microwave radiometer will also «see» about 550 kilometers below the clouds covering Jupiter's surface.

When the Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM I) satellite ended its mission, there was a delay in launching ACRIM II, which meant that data from the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) satellite data had to be used during the intervening period.

In contrast, the Scripps team opted to directly correlate albedo measurements made by NASA's CERES instrument data with observations of sea ice extent made by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM / I) radiometers aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites.

The collaborative project ACCESS (Advanced E Band Satellite Link Studies) was carried out by a research group headed by Professor Ingmar Kallfass from the Institute of Robust Power Semiconductor Systems (ILH) from the University of Stuttgart, the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) from KIT, Radiometer Physics GmbH, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF.

The microwave radiometer will measure heat radiation coming from the Moon.

It also boasts a radiometer that operates at microwave frequencies.

The along - track scanning radiometer, aboard Europe's ERS - 1, which measures minute variations in sea temperature, was developed at the SERC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire.

In return, Britain has instant access to data not only from the MLS but also two other radiometers aboard the NASA satellite.

The satellite will also record pressure, temperature and winds using an interferometer and an infrared radiometer.

Using data from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, we show that four regions of the Moon previously described as «red spots» exhibit mid-infrared spectra best explained by quartz, silica - rich glass, or alkali feldspar.

We obtained direct global measurements of the lunar surface using multispectral thermal emission mapping with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment.

The first such map was created in 1992, based on data gathered by the Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR), an instrument on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which NASA launched in 1989.

These images show Mount Ruapehu on the North Island of New Zealand and its summit lake, observed by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite.

Dr. Vijay Singh, A Texas A&M AgriLife Research assistant research scientist, uses a hyperspectral radiometer to collect reflectance signatures from weeds.

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.

«Along with the microwave radiometer measurements, which have also shown surprises in the deep atmosphere, these results demonstrate that if we want to understand giant planets, we will need to study all of Jupiter,» Levin says.

The new method has been tested on the Barents and Kara seas with SSMIS and AMSR - E radiometers.

Also while a student in Los Angeles, she served as a team member working on NASA's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, an instrument that flies aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

ECOSTRESS Principal Investigator Simon Hook of JPL began developing the thermal infrared radiometer for ECOSTRESS several years ago.

«MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's AVHRR sensor — the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.»

The SRRL is the home of the world's largest collection of radiometers in continuous operation including pyranometers, pyrheliometers, pyrgeometers, photometers, and spectroradiometers that can provide the solar resource information necessary for characterizing the performance of solar hydrogen components.

Finnish Meteorological Institute has been doing estimates of two essential sea ice parameters — namely, sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice thickness (SIT)-- for the Bohai Sea using a combination of a thermodynamic sea ice model and Earth observation (EO) data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and microwave radiometer.

The calculations take into account radiometer noise, intrinsic variability of the pulses that causes «jitter noise», pulse broadening from scattering along the entire line of sight, and the finite number of scintles in the timing data.

Soon after Earth's global flood, the radiometer effect spiraled asteroids out to the asteroid belt, just beyond Mars, where there were frequent opportunities to collide with Mars.

This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft on Nov. 13, 2011.