'Cloud amount' presentation slideshows

The CFMIP-GCSS SCM/LES Case Study: Overview and Preliminary Results

The CFMIP-GCSS SCM/LES Case Study: Overview and Preliminary Results. Minghua Zhang (Stony Brook University)

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COMPARISON OF CLOUD AMOUNTS FROM MODIS, TRMM, ISCCP AND SAGE

COMPARISON OF CLOUD AMOUNTS FROM MODIS, TRMM, ISCCP AND SAGE with comments on satellite intercalibration Patrick Minnis, Louis Nguyen NASA Langley Research Center Sunny Sun-Mack, Yan Chen SAIC Dave Doelling AS&M, Inc. Pi Wang STX 2006 Meeting of GEWEX Cloud Assessment, Madison, WI

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Scientific Data Management

Scientific Data Management. Dr. Laura Bright Bill Howe. Biology. Old way: Wet lab chemistry New way: Microarray Search GenBank, Ensembl, GDB, SwissProt, Entrez using BLAST, FASTA, GCG, EMBOSS. Astronomy. Old way: Sign up for telescope time New way: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Atmospheric Motions

Atmospheric Motions. Science Concepts Potential Energy Coriolis Force. Circulation Scales Thermally Driven Winds Global Circulations Rainfall Versus Latitude Observed Global Circulation Three-celled Circulation Wind Patterns Pressure Patterns Rainfall Patterns

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CEILOMETER

CEILOMETER. CEILOIMETER. Employs pulsed diode laser technology for detection of clouds, precipitation, and other obstructions to vision Accurate determination of cloud heights and vertical visibility Compact and lightweight O ptical system extended range and better performance.

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Introduction to Climate Models: history and basic structure Topics covered:

Introduction to Climate Models: history and basic structure Topics covered:. 1. Introduction to climate models 2. Brief history 3. Physical parametrizations. Definition and a healthy philosophy regarding climate models. The climate System. Brief history of climate modelling.

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Collection 6 Cloud Mask (MOD35) Status and Recent Analysis

Collection 6 Cloud Mask (MOD35) Status and Recent Analysis . Richard Frey, Brent Maddux, and Steve Ackerman MODIS Science Team Meeting May 18, 2011. Status: Collection 6 cloud mask has been delivered Original delivery August 2010 (Low Earth Orbiter Cloud Algorithm Testbed)

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Radiative Feedback Analysis of CO2 Doubling and LGM Experiments

Radiative Feedback Analysis of CO2 Doubling and LGM Experiments. JSPS 5 th University Allied Workshop (2 July 2008, Sunroute-Plaza Tokyo). ? M. Yoshimori, A. Abe-Ouchi CCSR, University of Tokyo and T. Yokohata National Institute for Environmental Studies. Climate Sensitivity.

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Daily NDVI relationship to clouds

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CDIAC Data Activities and Projects: Climate Database Compilation and Analysis Dale Kaiser

CDIAC Data Activities and Projects: Climate Database Compilation and Analysis Dale Kaiser. CDIAC User Working Group Meeting September 27-28, 2010, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Nature of CDIAC climate work Key CDIAC climate databases Examples of CDIAC value-added climate database work

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The Roles of Clouds and their Accomplices in Modulating the Trajectory of the Arctic System

The Roles of Clouds and their Accomplices in Modulating the Trajectory of the Arctic System. Co-P.I.s: Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University Axel Schweiger, University of Washington Steve Vavrus, University of Wisconsin. MODIS image. Motivation.

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Douglas Spangenberg 1 , Patrick Minnis 2 , Michele L. Nordeen 1 , Sunny Sun-Mack 1

Cloud Property Retrievals over the Arctic from the NASA A-Train Satellites Aqua, CloudSat and CALIPSO. Douglas Spangenberg 1 , Patrick Minnis 2 , Michele L. Nordeen 1 , Sunny Sun-Mack 1 and Q. Z. Trepte 1 1- Science Systems and Applications, Inc, Hampton, VA, USA

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Matthew Lagor Remote Sensing Stability Indices and Derived Product Imagery from the GOES Sounder

Matthew Lagor Remote Sensing Stability Indices and Derived Product Imagery from the GOES Sounder 5.8.02. Introduction. GOES Sounder Impact and DPI uses. Atmospheric Stability Products. Limitations of DPI. Questions. GOES Sounder Impact.

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Observations of Upper Tropospheric Clouds and Humidity from SEVIRI

Royal Met Soc Conference, Edinburgh 2007. Observations of Upper Tropospheric Clouds and Humidity from SEVIRI Ruth Comer, Tony Slingo and Richard Allan Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading.

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Comparison of Cloud Detection ( Cloud Properties and Amounts ) from AVHRR, HIRS, ISCCP and GLAS

Comparison of Cloud Detection ( Cloud Properties and Amounts ) from AVHRR, HIRS, ISCCP and GLAS. Andrew Heidinger and Michael Pavolonis NOAA/NESDIS Office of Research and Applications Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Madison, Wisconsin. Outline.

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Polar Atmospheric Composition: Some Measurements and Products A Report on Action item STG3-A11

Polar Atmospheric Composition: Some Measurements and Products A Report on Action item STG3-A11. Jeff Key NOAA/NESDIS. Clouds. AVHRR Polar Pathfinder extended (APP-x). Based on the NOAA/NASA AVHRR Polar Pathfinder data set from NSIDC :

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An Android Based Mobile Heat Stress App

US Army Research, Development & Engineering Command. An Android Based Mobile Heat Stress App . David Sauter Atmospheric Modeling Applications Branch Battlefield Environment Division Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM. WIDA Conference - Mar 2012. david.sauter@us.army.mil

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Estimation of fractional cloud cover from all-sky digital images at sea

Estimation of fractional cloud cover from all-sky digital images at sea. Alexey Sinitsyn Sergey Gulev Krinitsky Mikhail. Motivation and background MORE cruises: all-sky digital images of cloud Testing existing algorithm for estimation Comprising existing algorithm with visual:

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Using the method on the ARM cloud observations May 30, 1999

On the Uncertainty of Inferring Absolute Cloud Fraction From Time Series of Narrow Field of View Observations Yingtao Ma a and Robert G. Ellingson b a Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Using the method on the ARM cloud observations May 30, 1999

On the Uncertainty of Inferring Absolute Cloud Fraction From Time Series of Narrow Field of View Observations Yingtao Ma a and Robert G. Ellingson b a Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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