Satellite Cloud and Radiation Retrievals for ARM and ASR
Authors
Patrick Minnis — NASA - Langley Research Center
William L. Smith — NASA - Langley Research Center
Rabindra Palikonda — Science Systems and Applications. Inc./NASA - LRC
Mandana Khaiyer — Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI)
Fu-Lung Chang — Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Christopher Rogers Yost — Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Kris M Bedka — NASA
Sarah Bedka — Science Systems and Applications. Inc./NASA - LRC
Douglas A. Spangenberg — Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Michele Nordeen — Science Systems and Applications. Inc./NASA - LRC
Thad L. Chee — Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Category
General Topics
Description
Large-scale cloudiness and radiation fields are essential for verifying models and closing the radiation budget over a given domain. Cloud properties and broadband radiative fluxes have been retrieved from geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data over the ever expanding array of ARM surface sites. This paper describes the retrievals from a variety of satellites over the various ARM surface sites from Antarctica to the Arctic including the tropical and subtropical sites as well as the SGP, NSA, and TWP workhorses in the central USA, Alska North Slope, and tropical western Pacific. Descriptions and examples of the data along with comparisons with ARM surface-based retrievals are presented. These datasets are available from both the ARM archive and at the NASA Langley ARM website.Lead PI
Patrick Minnis — NASA - Langley Research Center