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Effects of solar heating on the indirect effect of aerosols as deduced from observations of ship tracks

Creator:

Christensen, Matthew W.

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One kilometer Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observations for Terra (morning) and Aqua (afternoon) satellites were used to follow the morning to afternoon evolution of marine stratocumulus clouds that were affected by ship stack exhaust. The observations covered the summer months of 2002-2003 and August 2007 for marine layers off...

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Masters Thesis

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water path (Platnick et al., 2000; Coakley and Walsh, 2002; and Segrin et al., 2007). Clearly the
Properties of low-level marine clouds as deduced from advanced very high resolution radiometer satellite observations

Creator:

Chang, Fu-Lung

Abstract:

A radiation model was developed for retrieving cloud visible optical depth, droplet effective radius, and cloud top emission temperature using AVHRR satellite observations at 0.63, 3.7, and 11 μm. The model was used to determine the sensitivity of the retrieved properties to various approximations often employed in such retrievals. Droplet...

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Dissertation

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, Norman Loeb, Xijian Lin, Steve Platnick, and Mr. Nathaniel Plant for their helpful discussions during