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Mission to Planet Earth: Role of Clouds and Radiation in Climate
- Source :
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 76:2125-2153
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- American Meteorological Society, 1995.
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Abstract
- The role of clouds in modifying the earth's radiation balance is well recognized as a key uncertainty in predicting any potential future climate change. This statement is true whether the climate change of interest is caused by changing emissions of greenhouse gases and sulfates, deforestation, ozone depletion, volcanic eruptions, or changes in the solar constant. This paper presents an overview of the role of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite data in understanding the role of clouds in the global climate system. The paper gives a brief summary of the cloud/radiation problem, and discusses the critical observations needed to support further investigations. The planned EOS data products are summarized, including the critical advances over current satellite cloud and radiation budget data. Key advances include simultaneous observation of radiation budget and cloud properties, additional information on cloud particle size and phase, improved detection ...
- Subjects :
- Earth's energy budget
Cloud forcing
Atmospheric Science
Solar constant
Meteorology
business.industry
Climate change
Cloud computing
Physics::Geophysics
Greenhouse gas
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
Environmental science
Cloud condensation nuclei
business
Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15200477 and 00030007
- Volume :
- 76
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........140611431472f3f3beee64ba9fdcc66d