Author: Linwood F. Whitney
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Category : Atmospheric circulation
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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Category : Scientific satellites
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Languages : en
Pages : 1010

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Author: William L. Smith
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Category : Radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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A preprototype (brassboard model) Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer (ITPR) was tested on the NASA Convair-990 aircraft expedition during June 1970. The objectives of the airborne ITPR experiment were to obtain data to test various techniques planned for deriving temperature soundings from spaceborne ITPR measurements and to specify the transmission characteristics of the atmosphere and clouds. This paper describes the instrument and shows various results obtained from the airborne measurements.

Author: Norman C. Grody
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Category : Atmospheric temperature
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: L. M. McMillin
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Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Data are currently being received from a Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer (VTPR) aboard the NOAA 2 spacecraft to produce operational atmospheric soundings of temperature and humidity on a global scale. This report describes the VTPR instrument, its calibration, the procedure to obtain "clear radiances" from cloud-contaminated radiance measurements, retrieval techniques used to obtain temperature and humidity profiles from "clear radiances", the quality checks performed on the profiles, and the various forms in which data are available to potential users.

Author: Potarazu Krishna Rao
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Category : Meteorological satellites
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: William Lee Smith
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Category : Atmosphere, Upper
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Vertical cross-sections of temperature between 60°S and 50°N for Apr. 6, 1973, are derived from (a) radiosonde, (b) Nimbus-5 Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer, Nimbus-E Microwave Spectrometer and Selective Chopper Radiometer, and (c) NOAA-2 Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer (VTPR) data. Comparisons are made of the level temperatures and latitudinal temperature gradients, geopotential heights and the latitudinal gradients, and geostrophic winds inferred from the radiosonde and satellite cross-sections. The results of this limited case study indicate: 1. Temperature accuracies for the lower troposphere obtained with Nimbus-5 sounding data are superior to those achieved with the NOAA-2 VTPR data. 2. The agreement between latitudinal gradients of temperature derived from satellite data and radiosonde observations is much better than the agreement between level temperatures obtained from satellite and radiosonde observations. 3. The geostrophic wind distribution of jet streams derived from satellite data possesses more character and intensity than does the geostrophic wind distribution obtained from radiosonde data.

Author: H. Jacobowitz
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Category : Aerosols
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Ralph K. Anderson
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Category : Clouds
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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The report represents the combined efforts of personnel of the Applications Group, National Environmental Satellite Center (NESC), now the National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS); the NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND Project FAMOS; and the Satellite Section, USAF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS CENTER (ETAC). Topics discussed include the following: Satellite cloud atlas and glossary; Synoptic cloud patterns; Application of satellite data to synoptic analysis in the tropics; Local phenomena; Infrared.