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Summary of along-track data from the earth radiation budget satellite for several major desert regions
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Brooks, David R. Fenn, Marta A. |
| Copyright Year | 1988 |
| Description | For several days in January and August 1985, the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, a component of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), was operated in an along-track scanning mode. A survey of radiance measurements is given for four desert areas in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, and the Sahel region of Africa. Each overflight provides radiance information for four scene categories: clear, partly cloudy, mostly cloudy, and overcast. The data presented include the variation of radiance in each scene classification as a function of viewing zenith angle during each overflight of the five target areas. Several features of interest in the development of anisotropic models are evident, including day-night differences in longwave limb darkening and the azimuthal dependence of short wave radiance. There is some evidence that surface features may introduce thermal or visible shadowing that is not incorporated in the usual descriptions of the anisotropic behavior of radiance as viewed from space. The data also demonstrate that the ERBE scene classification algorithms give results that, at least for desert surfaces, are a function of viewing geometry. |
| File Size | 6143812 |
| Page Count | 146 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19880011388 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t94798x2q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1988-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Cloud Cover Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Algorithms Limb Darkening Africa Saudi Arabia Bidirectional Reflectance Deserts Australia Remote Sensing Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
