Sentences with phrase «with radiometer»

They add to net IR UP [the difference between the UP and DOWN Poynting vectors, what you measure with a radiometer], the DOWN Poynting vector leaving just the UP vector, most of which can not do thermodynamic work.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

@TJA: regarding thermodynamic work, a Crookes» Radiometer is a good example of the conversion of EM energy to heat thence to mechanical energy as molecules desorb with different energies on the blackened and shiny sides of the vanes.

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

Even if the 2008 summer sea ice minimum extent appeared to be slightly above the 2007 all - time record minimum, according to passive radiometers, it does not seem like the ice mass budget is significantly different in 2008 compared with 2007.

Equinox Instruments Limited specialises in providing class leading instruments to its customers with a product portfolio that includes solar radiation sensors, compact weather stations, ultrasonic wind sensors, anemometers, wind vanes, sun tracking systems, scintillometers, sky radiometers, data loggers, temperature profilers, chart recorders, and data acquisition recorders.

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 recWith 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 recwith the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder ERB record.

If you go out in your back yard on a clear sky day, say anywhere in the USA lower 49 (sans Alaska), with a calibrated radiometer that can measure surface Irradance, and point it roughly at the sun, that is the number you will likely read on your radiometer.

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.

Based on these results, we conclude that (1) the sensitivity changes of the PMO6V radiometers within VIRGO during the first two years have very likely not been correctly evaluated; and that (2) the TSI variations over cycle 23 and the change in the TSI levels between the minima in 1996 and 2008 are consistent with the solar surface magnetism mechanism.

Useful satellite data concerning sea ice began in late 1978 with the launch of NASA's Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) satellite.

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.

CMIS represented the state of the art in satellite microwave radiometers and was intended to continue, with a higher degree of accuracy and resolution, the time series of many fundamental climate variables, including SST and wind, sea ice and snow coverage, soil moisture, and atmospheric moisture (vapor, clouds, and rain).

Working with his son, L.H.G. Dines, he used his radiometer to make a study of sky radiation at his home in Benson, Oxfordshire — often referred to as «the Benson observatory.»

Key to the radiometer was finding a shielding material with suitably flat transmissivity over the IR frequencies of interest for the «window.»

And specifically on Venus: Carl Sagan's reputation was established with his work with the microwave radiometer instrument flown aboard Mariner 2, which did a «fly by» mission to observe Venus.

By making radiometer observations (giving observed IR flux) simultaneously with nearby radiosonde flights (giving temperature and humidity readings from which Elsasser tables allowed the computation of calculated fluxes) they showed that:

Existing radiometers such as GMI (with a 6.9 GHz channel), JAXA AMSR - 2, or WindSat are all possibilities.

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 authors infer the amount of total aerosol using the Advanced Very High - Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite instrument and screen for locations where dust is present (they note that other aerosols might be mixed with the dust, but neglect this overlap).

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

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).

My own experiments were with ASTER -LRB-(Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) datasets from a Japanese instrument fflown by NASA aboard TERRA.