Advances in Understanding Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation Variability from Satellite Observations

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 359-385

  Loeb, Norman G ^a   Kato, Seiji ^a   Su, Wenying ^b   Wong, Takmeng ^a   Rose, Fred G ^b   Doelling, David R ^a   Norris, Joel R ^c   Huang, Xianglei ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Clouds; Radiation budget

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLOUD HEIGHTS; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; ENSO EVENTS; GLOBAL SCALE; LA NINA; LONG WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MID-LATITUDE CLOUDS; MODERATE RES-OLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MULTIANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATION CHANGE; RADIATIVE WARMING; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TIME-SCALES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TRACK CHANGES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETERS;

RADIATION;

AQUA (SATELLITE); CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EOS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MISR; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRA (SATELLITE);

EID: 84862650504     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-012-9175-1     Document Type: Article

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