Sentences with phrase «of radiometers»

The Ground Radiation (GNDRAD) collection of radiometers provides continuous measurements of broadband reflected shortwave (solar) and longwave (infrared) irradiances for upwelling components.

The Sky Radiation (SKYRAD) collection of radiometers provides continuous measurements of broadband shortwave (solar) and longwave (infrared) irradiances for downwelling components.

The BRS station collection of radiometers provides continuous measurements of broadband shortwave (solar) and longwave (infrared) irradiances for downwelling components.

I'd be interested to hear your take on the accuracy of the radiometers produced by Radiometrics.

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.

It all comes down to this mistake and the «back radiation» which does not exist except as the artefact of the radiometer measurement.

The calibrations before and after the September shutdown gave no indication of any change in the sensitivity of the radiometer.

I still await your alternative energy balance explanation of a single day of radiometer readings with your «new» theory».

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

A sensitivity study of the LIdar - Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) using selected cases from Thessaloniki, Greece database

Three other works make historical time visible: two cast bronze and aluminum sculptures inspired by the nameplates of Britain's intercity trains, and the sculpture Johns Radiometer, which is modeled on a nineteenth - century device for measuring electromagnetic radiation.

This is very encouraging for the future application of measurements from sea - going spectral radiometers, as instruments not only for the validation of satellite - derived SST but also for studying the physics of the ocean skin temperature layer.

This hindcast uses two time - varying inputs: 10 - meter wind vectors from the atmospheric model NAVGEM (Navy Global Environmental Model, Hogan et al. 2014) run at the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), and analyses of ice concentrations (also produced at FNMOC) from passive microwave radiometer data (SSM / I).

The National Space Development Agency of Japan contributed a microwave scanning radiometer to measure water vapor content and precipitation rates, and Brazil's space agency provided a device to measure atmospheric humidity.

Roy W. Spencer is a well known AGW «Denier» a PHD, U.S., Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E) on NASA's Aqua satellite, holder of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, published in Nature (one of the most prestigious science journals in the world), yet some of his most basic scientific ideas are clearly ridiculous.

Microwave radiometers are very sensitive gauges of energy transmitted from the Earth which scientists can use to judge the amount of water, ice or water vapour underneath the spacecraft's flight path.

From its position at L1, DSCOVR uses the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR) to produce a consistent and accurate measurement of all outgoing energy from Earth.

Microwave radars of the European Remote - Sensing Satellites (ERS), radiometers of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and the dual - frequency altimeter TOPEX - POSEIDON have shown their ability to improve the description and location of storms, especially in the case of tropical cyclones for which very few traditional observations exist.

The team used 26 years of continuous data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, a space - borne sensor flying on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, to measure the forest greenness.

Since 1979, scientists have relied on a variety of satellite sensors, including the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR), the Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I), the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — Earth Observing System (AMSR - E), and (most recently) the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS).

Results of first outdoor comparison between Absolute Cavity Pyrgeometer (ACP) and Infrared Integrating Sphere (IRIS) Radiometer at PMOD.

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E), a high - resolution passive microwave Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the state of Arctic sea ice on September 10 in this image released September 16, 2008.

The two satellites are in a polar orbit with an inclination of about 82 degrees and operates 3 distinct instruments: a radar altimeter; an imaging spectrometer; and an infrared radiometer.

Yet according to this study: http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/brightness.shtml «Data collected from radiometers on U.S. and European spacecraft show that the Sun is about 0.07 percent brighter in years of peak sunspot activity, such as around 2000, than when spots are rare (as they are now, at the low end of the 11 - year solar cycle).