World Wide Web access to radiation datasets for environmental and climate...

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Five years of scanner data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), eight years of surface radiation budget (SRB) data, and one year of scanner radiation budget data from the French-Russian-German experiment, ScaRaB...

The SCaRaB earth radiation budget dataset

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......French-Russian-German Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) project, brief descriptions...Space Administration's (NASA) Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) scanner data, even...The resulting monthly mean earth radiation budget distributions exhibit no global bias...

Evaluation of the Surface Radiation Budget in the Atmospheric Component of...

Journal of Climate;  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The partitioning of the earth radiation budget (ERB) between its atmosphere and surface...climate simulation of the surface radiation budget in the atmospheric component of the...the globe. 1. Introduction The earth radiation budget (ERB) is the ensemble of radiative...

Temporal interpolation methods for the clouds and the Earth's Radiant...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......temporally interpolating the CERES earth radiation budget measurements to compute averages of...techniques developed from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) and provides radiation...shortwave flux. 1. Introduction Global radiation budget measurements at the top of the ...

Use of ScaRaB measurements for validating a GOES-based TOA radiation...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......missions entails inference of the TOA radiation budget from operational weather sensors...this study, a surrogate TOA earth radiation budget product generated from GOES-7 (Geostationary...original GOES products. 1. Introduction Radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere (TOA...

Role of tropical clouds in surface and atmospheric energy budget

Journal of Climate;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......forcing (CRF) and clear-sky radiation budget at the surface and in the...based on satellite-observed radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere...gradients of the clear-sky radiation budget at the surface and in the...

The Sensitivity of the Tropical-Mean Radiation Budget

Journal of Climate;  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......decadal variability in the tropical-mean radiation budget. Measurements from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) over the period...efficiency can alter the tropical-mean radiation budget is assessed. Results from both model...

The dependence of TOA reflectance anisotropy on cloud properties inferred...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......satellite data from the Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) for overcast scenes to examine...overcast ADM, similar to the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) ADM, was generated...geometry. 1. Introduction The earth's radiation budget (ERB) plays important roles in governing...

The ScaRaB-resurs Earth radiation budget dataset and first results

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......second flight model of the Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) instrument have been processed...quality to those made by the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment and the Clouds and Earth...data are used to estimate the earth radiation budget. These concomitant narrow- and broadband...

THE GEOSTATIONARY EARTH RADIATION BUDGET PROJECT

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......satellite sensor, the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) experiment. GERB is designed...first measurements of the Earth's radiation budget from geostationary orbit. Measurements...high-time-resolution measurements of the Earth's radiation budget for atmospheric physics and ...

Reexamination of the Observed Decadal Variability of the Earth Radiation...

Journal of Climate;  August 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......update on the observed decadal variability of the earth radiation budget (ERB) using the latest altitude-corrected Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)/Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) Nonscanner Wide Field of View (WFOV) instrument...

Shortwave radiation budget of the southern hemisphere using ISCCP C2 and...

Journal of Climate;  November 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The seasonal shortwave radiation budget at the surface of the Southern Hemisphere...Research (NCEP-NCAR). The computed radiation budget of the Southern Hemisphere is given...at TOA were validated against Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) scanner S4 satellite...

Dynamic Effects on the Tropical Cloud Radiative Forcing and Radiation...

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......large-scale dynamics on the observed radiation budget and cloud properties in the tropics...suggested by Bony et al. Cloud and radiation budget quantities in the tropics show well-defin...long-term trends in the tropical mean radiation budget is very small compared to the observed...

Top-of-atmosphere Albedo estimation from angular distribution models using...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The next generation of earth radiation budget satellite instruments will routinely...to an earlier study involving Earth Radiation Budget Experiment ADMs, regional mean albedos...temporal distribution of the earth radiation budget, global observations of top-of-atmosphere...

Determination of unfiltered radiances from the clouds and the Earth's...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and August of 1998) of CERES Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)like unfiltered radiances...N are compared with archived Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) scanner measurements...to accurately determine the earth's radiation budget. The most comprehensive experiment...