Estimates of clear and low, middle and high cloud amount in fixed geographical regions approximately (160 km) squared are being made routinely from 11.5 micron radiance measurements of the Nimbus-7 Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR). The purpose of validation is to determine the accuracy of the THIR cloud estimates. Validation requires that a comparison be made between the THIR estimates of cloudiness and the 'true' cloudiness. The validation results reported in this paper use human analysis of concurrent but independent satellite images with surface meteorological and radiosonde observations to approximate the 'true' cloudiness. Regression and error analyses are used to estimate the systematic and random errors of THIR derived clear amount.


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    Titel :

    Validation of Nimbus-7 temperature-humidity infrared radiometer estimates of cloud type and amount


    Beteiligte:
    Stowe, L. L. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.1982



    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch