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Modeling and application of multispectral oceanic sun glint observations

Creator:

Luderer, Gunnar

Abstract:

The atmospheric radiative transfer model MOCARAT was developed and is presented in this thesis. MOCARAT employs a Monte Carlo Technique for the accurate modeling of band radiances and reflectances in an atmospheric system with a ruffled ocean surface as a lower boundary. The atmospheric radiative transfer is modeled with consideration...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
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
Using ship tracks to characterize the effects of haze on cloud properties

Creator:

Segrin, Matthew S.

Abstract:

1-km MODIS observations of ship tracks off the west coast of the U.S. are used to characterize changes in cloud visible optical depths, cloud droplet radii, cloud cover fraction, and column cloud liquid water amount as low-level marine clouds respond to particle pollution from underlying ships. This study re-examines the...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis