Cloud field identification for earth radiation budget studies. Part II: Cloud field classification for the ScaRaB radiometer

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 428-443

  Stubenrauch, C J ^a   Seze, G ^a   Scott, N A ^a   Chedin, A ^a   Desbois, M ^a   Kandel, R S ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD FIELD CLASSIFICATION; ERBE; RADIATION BALANCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 0030481239     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0428:CFIFER>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Barkstrom, B. R., 1990: Earth radiation budget measurements: Pre-ERBE, ERBE and CERES, SPIE Proc. 12999 Long-Term Monitoring of the Earth's Radiation Budget, Orlando, FL, SPIE, 52-60.
2. _, E. F. Harrison, G. L. Smith, R. Green, J. Kibler, R. Cess, and the ERBE Science Team, 1989: Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) archival and April 1985 results. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 70, 1254-1262.
3. Baum, B. A., R. F. Arduini, B. A. Wielicki, P. Minnis, and S.-C. Tsay, 1994: Multilevel cloud retrieval using multispectral HIRS and AVHRR data: Nighttime oceanic results. J. Geophys. Res., 99(D3), 5499-5514.
4. Bengtsson, L., 1991: Advances and prospects in numerical weather prediction. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 117(501), 855-902.
5. Berger, F., 1992: The influence of high clouds on climate. Proc. Central Symp. on Int. Space Year Conf., Munich, Germany, ESA SP-341, 105-109.
6. Cess, R. D., and Coauthors, 1990: Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models. J. Geophys. Res., 95(D10), 16 601-16 615.
7. Charlock, T. P., and V. Ramanathan, 1985: The albedo field and cloud radiative forcing produced by a general circulation model with internally cloud optics. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 1408-1429.
8. Chedin, A., and N. A. Scott, 1985: Initialization of the radiative transfer equation inversion problem from a pattern recognition type approach: Application to the satellites of the TIROS-N series. Advances in Remote Sensing Retrieval Methods, A. Deepak, 495-515.
9. _, N. A. Scott, C. Wahiche, and P. Moulinier, 1985: The improved initialized inversion method: A high resolution physical method for temperature retrievals from Tiros-N series. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 24, 124-143.
10. Coakley, J. A., Jr., and F. P. Bretherton, 1982: Cloud cover from high resolution scanner data: Detecting and allowing for partially filled fields of view. J. Geophys. Res., 87, 4917-4932.
11. _, and D. G. Baldwin, 1984: Towards the objective analysis of clouds from satellite imagery data. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 23, 1065-1099.
12. Derrien, M., B. Farki, L. Harang, H. Le Gléau, A. Noyalet, D. Pochie, and A. Sairouni, 1993: Automatic cloud detection applied to NOAA-II AVHRR imagery. Remote Sens. Environ., 46, 246-267.
13. Diday, E., and J. C. Simon, 1980: Clustering analysis. Digital Pattern Recognition, K. S. Fu, Ed., Springer Verlag, 47-94.
14. Escobar, J., 1993: Base de données pour restitution de paramètres atmosphériques à l'échelle globale, Etude sur l'inversion par réseaux de neurones de données des sondeurs verticaux atmosphériques satellitaires présents et à venir, Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, 167 pp. [Available from LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France].
15. Harrison, E. F., P. Minnis, B. R. Barkstrom, V. Ramanathan, R. D. Cess, and G. G. Gibson, 1990: Seasonal variation of cloud radiative forcing derived from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 95(D11), 18687-18703.
16. Kneizys, F. X., E. P. Shettle, L. W. Abrieu, J. H. Chetwynd, G. P. Anderson, W. O. Gallery, J. E. A. Selby, and S. A. Clough, 1988: Users Guide to LOWTRAN7, AFGL-TR-88-0177. [Available from AFGL (OPI), Hanscom AFB, MA.]
17. Kriebel, K. T., and R. W. Saunders, 1988: An improved method for detecting clear sky and cloudy radiances from AVHRR data. Int. J. Remote Sens., 9, 123-150.
18. Llewellyn-Jones, D. T., P. J. Minnett, R. W. Saunders, and A. M. Zavody, 1984: Satellite multichannel infrared measurements of sea surface temperature of the N.E. Atlantic Ocean using AVHRR/2. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 110, 613-631.
19. Monge, J. L., R. S. Kandel, L. A. Pakhomov, and V. I. Adasko, 1991: ScaRaB earth radiation budget scanning radiometer. Metrologia, 28, 261-264.
20. Ockert-Bell, M. E., and D. L. Hartmann, 1992: The effect of cloud type on earth's-energy balance: Results for selected regions. J. Climate, 5, 1157-1171.
21. Prabhakara, C., R. S. Fraser, G. Dalu, C. Wu Man-Li, and R. J. Curran, 1988: Thin cirrus clouds: Seasonal distribution over oceans deduced from Nimbus-4 IRIS. J. Appl. Meteor., 27, 379-399.
22. Raval, A., and V. Ramanathan, 1989: Observational determination of the Greenhouse Effect. Nature, 342, 758-761.
23. Rossow, W. B., and R. A. Schiffer, 1991: ISCCP cloud data products. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 72, 1-20.
24. _, and L. C. Garder, 1993: Cloud detection using satellite measurements of infrared and visible radiances for ISCCP. J. Climate, 6, 2341-2369.
25. _, and Coauthors, 1985: ISCCP cloud algorithm intercomparison. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 24, 877-903.
26. Scott, N. A., and A. Chedin, 1981: A fast line-by-line method for atmospheric absorption computations: The automized atmospheric absorption atlas. J. Appl. Meteor., 20, 802-812.
27. Sèze, G., and M. Desbois, 1987: Cloud cover analysis from satellite imagery using spatial and temporal characteristics of the data. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 26, 287-303.
28. Slingo, A., and J. M. Slingo, 1991: Response of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model to improvements in the representation of clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 96(8), 15 341-15 337.
29. Stowe, L. L., E. P. McClain, R. Carey, P. Pellegrino, G. G. Gutman, P. Davis, C. Long, S. Hart, 1991: Global distribution of cloud cover derived from NOAA/AVHRR operational satellite data. Adv. Space Res., 11, 351-354.
30. Stubenrauch, C., 1993: Co-location of AVHRR, ERBE and HIRS/MSU data. Internal Note no 185, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, 9 pp. [Available from LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, Cedex, France.]
31. _, J.-Ph. Duvel, and R. S. Kandel, 1993: Determination of longwave anisotropic emission factors from combined broad- and narrowband radiance measurements. J. Appl. Meteor., 32, 848-856.
32. _, N. A. Scott, and A. Chedin, 1996: Cloud field identification for earth radiation budget studies. Part I: Cloud field classification using HIRS-MSU sounder measurements. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 416-427.
33. Susskind, J., D. Reuter, and M. T. Chahine, 1987: Cloud fields retrieved from analysis of HIRS2/MSU sounding data. J. Geophys. Res., 92(D4), 4035-4050.
34. Wahiche, C., N. A. Scott, and A. Chedin, 1986: Cloud detection and cloud parameters retrieval from the satellites of the TIROS-N Series. Ann. Geophys., 4B, 207-222.
35. Wielicki, B. A., and R. N. Green, 1989: Cloud identification for ERBE radiative flux retrieval. J. Appl. Meteor., 28, 1133-1146.
36. Wylie, D. P., and W. P. Menzel, 1989: Two years of cloud cover statistics using VAS. J. Climate, 2, 380-392.