Sentences with phrase «satellite radiometer»

An estimate of global primary production in the ocean from satellite radiometer data.

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.

Other data sources were investigated, including the new Berkeley land - ocean temperature data, the MERRA weather model reanalysis, and satellite radiometer datasets from AIRS and AVHRR.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite took the image in June 2005.

The satellite data come from the European Remote Sensing satellite scatterometers (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), NASA scatterometers (NSCAT and Seawinds onboard ADEOS - 1 and QuikScat respectively), and several defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) radiometers (Special Sensor Microwave / Imager [SSM / I] F10 - F15).

This image shows the minimum extent for 2009 as observed by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR - E), a Japanese sensor flying on NASA's Aqua satellite.

The remotely sensed winds and latent heat fluxes are mainly derived from the scatterometers onboard the European Remote Sensing Satellites (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) onboard ADEOS - 1, Seawinds scatterometer onboard QuikSCAT, and from the radiometers onboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (F10, F11, F13, F14, and F15).

These were based on U.S. Navy, Canadian and Danish aerial reconnaissance data and from retrievals from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR), passive microwave, and other satellite instruments

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.

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.

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 top image, made from sea ice observations collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E) Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite, shows sea ice extent on September 19, 2010.

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).

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.

Radars and radiometers onboard satellites provide valuable global...

NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) thermal stress products used in this study were based on nighttime - only Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) data from sensors aboard operational NOAA Polar - Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), produced in near - real - time at 0.5 - degree (50 - km) spatial resolution.

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.

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.

This figure is an overlay of a lightning stroke map from WWLLN (black circles) and 91 - gigahertz brightness temperatures provided by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS) radiometer on the low - orbit satellite DMSP F - 18.

In addition to its primary mission of observing space weather, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is carrying two instruments that are important to climate science: the NISTAR radiometer and the EPIC camera.

Currently a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he also «serves as the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS... flying on NASA's Aqua satellite.»

The primary sources of the post-1972 data are the hemispheric fields of sea - ice concentration from (1) the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC), whose weekly grids (derived primarily from satellite data) span the period 1972 - 1994, and (2) the satellite passive - microwave grids from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and others, 1999).

The 2012 map was compiled from observations by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR - 2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st — Water («Shizuku») satellite, which is operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 AMSR - 2 sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st - Water (GCOM - W1) satellite.

How the image was made: The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite collected the data.

The microwave radiometers on the Nimbus - 7 satellite pick up these differences.

The 1984 image was made from observations by the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus - 7 satellite.

The first part of this thesis compares the seasonal cycle and interannual variability of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) satellite retrievals over the Northern Hemisphere subtropical Atlantic Ocean, where soil dust aerosols make the largest contribution to the aerosol load, and are assumed to dominate the variability of each data set.

Note: The Sea Ice Index input data comes from the passive microwave instrument on the DMSP satellites, but IMS uses the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002 to 2011.

«It is important to remember that surface heat islands are measured by only those city surfaces that can be «seen» by the radiometer on the satellite,» he said.

The ISCCP calibrations are now the most complete and accurate set of calibrations available for the imaging radiometers on the weather satellites: total relative uncertainties in the radiance calibrations are estimated to be ≲ 5 % for visible and ≲ 2 % for infrared; absolute uncertainties appear to be < 10 % and < 3 %, respectively.

One of the authors of the Monaghan et al. group had previously examined trends in temperature «inferred from skin temperatures from Advanced Very Hi - Res» Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments on polar orbiting satellites» and found «a statistically insignificant cooling trend over continental Antarctica from 1982 to 1998.»