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  • Properties of marine stratus and stratocumulus derived using collocated MODIS and CALIPSO observations

    Creator:
    Hayes, Christopher R.
    Abstract:
    Adiabatic parcel models suggest specific relationships between cloud thickness and cloud properties. Such relationships govern cloud radiative forcing and thus cloud feedbacks in the climate system. Current remote sensing techniques work well at measuring these properties in low-level cloud systems that are overcast. Significant biases exist, however, when measuring cloud...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    remain. Previous studies have shown that problems exist with current cloud remote sensing techniques

  • Properties of semitransparent upper-level clouds deduced from multispectral imagery data

    Creator:
    Lin, Xijian
    Abstract:
    A multispectral retrieval method is developed on the 100 km regional scale to extract the temperature, particle size, fractional cover and 11-μm emissivity of clouds which may be semitransparent in the infrared based on emitted radiances. The scheme utilizes the nonlinear relationship between emitted radiances when clouds are semitransparent and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    -layered cloud systems constitute equal proportions of 100km scale regions. For the upper-level, single