Sentences with phrase «radiometer measurements»

Matrosov S. Y. and D. D. Turner (March 2018): Retrieving mean temperature of atmospheric liquid water layers using microwave radiometer measurements.

The main improvements with respect to V2 version flux products (Bentamy et al, 2008) are related to the improvements of the specific air humidity estimation from radiometer measurements, to the assessment of the surface winds retrieved from QuikSCAT scatterometers, and to the use of the new objective method allowing the calculation of flux analyses over the global oceans.

«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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

Motivated primarily by Mitchum's conclusion, Keihm et al., 2000 (Abstract; Google Scholar access) actively tried to come up with something that could cause a «drift» in the satellites, and eventually decided that a temporary problem in the «TOPEX Microwave Radiometer path delay measurements», which stopped in December 1996 could do that.

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.

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

ESA clearly prefers to use Cryosat - 2 for sea ice measurements, which uses an active radiometer.

The combination of a series of Earth - observing satellite sensors, including the most recent Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) and Sentinel - 3, could enable the production of a near - daily record of global ocean color measurements now spanning nearly 2 decades.

The Microwave Radiometer - High Frequency (MWRHF) provides time - series measurements of brightness temperatures from two channels centered at 90 and 150 GHz.

Microwave radiometers are a passive measurement technique; that is, they monitor Earth's own heat energy emissions in the 1 - to 200 - gigahertz frequency range.

2008 G. Matthews, «Celestial body irradiance determination from an under - filled satellite radiometer: Application to albedo and thermal emission measurements of the Moon using CERES» Applied Optics.

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

For practical purposes, SSTsubskin can be well approximated to the measurement of surface temperature by a microwave radiometer operating in the 6 - 11 GHz frequency range, but the relationship is neither direct nor invariant to changing physical conditions or to the specific geometry of the microwave measurements.

The animation was made with measurements taken by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — EOS (AMSR - E) on NASA's Aqua satellite between March 7 and September 9.

The Microwave Radiometer (MWR) provides time - series measurements of column - integrated amounts of water vapor and liquid water.

The skin SST, SSTskin, is the temperature measured by an infrared radiometer at a depth of order of 500 µm depending on the wavelength of the measurement.

In the original configuration of NPOESS, the ocean surface vector wind data record established by QuikSCAT was to be replaced by passive microwave measurements of wind speed and direction by the polarimetric CMIS radiometer.

Alexandrov, M.D., P. Kiedron, J.J. Michalsky, G. Hodges, C.J. Flynn, and A.A. Lacis, 2007: Optical depth measurements by shadow - band radiometers and their uncertainties.

XOVWM would include a dual - frequency Ku - band and C - band radar and an X-band radiometer, which would allow measurements in rainy conditions, as well as measurements of the extreme winds in hurricanes and extratropical cyclones.

With MIS delayed until NPOESS C2, there is a need to continue the long (28 - year) climate data record of sea ice extent and concentration collected by passive microwave radiometers; continued scatterometer and altimeter measurements are also required.

The same is by direct measurements of the solar irradiance on groung by radiometers, pyrometers and pyrgeometers adjusted to measure the solar irradiance EXCLUSIVELY.

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

The peak was afternoon, at 19 h UT, with a flux of almost 435 W / m ^ 2 (measurements by net radiometers and pyrgeometers), which gives a temperature of 37 °C (311 K).