REMOTE SENSING OF THE OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE (16:375:551)

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Altimeters:
Active System
Codar
NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry
Seasat
Geosat
Topex
Noaa altimetry data
Radars
Noaa Server
Nice Link:

Ozon
Asample of latest, complete global image from TOMS.:
Aerosols
The CIMSS Realtime GOES Page:
Precipitable Water
Lifted Index/CAPE
Cloud Top Pressure
Ozone
 Sea-Surface Temperature
NESDIS Satellite Product

Links:
Nasa ERBE
SARDAT
MOS
DFD

 Ozon samples taken over the south pole

Oct 10 1999  114
Oct 20 1999  128
Oct 30 1999  150
Nov 10 1999  165
Nov 20 1999  188
Nov 30 1999  191
Dec 10 1999  304
Dec 20 1999  262
Dec 31 1999  273
 

When you wander out in the evening on a nice day and see a reddened sun setting and the blue sky all around, you are observing radiative transfer in progress. If light traveled nonstop from the sun to our eyes, we would see only a bright yellow-white object on a black sky. The fact that this is not what we observe implies that other effects are at work. Specifically, molecules in the Earth's atmosphere scatter some of this radiation from its original direction of propagation into our line of sight; since higher-frequency, bluer wavelengths are referentially scattered over lower-frequency, redder wavelengths, we observe a blue sky. This same process also explains why the setting sun appears red; the blue light is preferentially scattered out of our line of sight to the sun.The essence of radiative transfer is that it deals with how radiant energy is transported from one location to another. This is a fundamental physics process which occurs in applications from stellar interiors to medical imaging. It is an inherently non-local process, since radiation can move freely over huge distances while hardly interacting at all. This makes radiative transfer substantially more difficult to solve than hyperbolic systems, and accounts for why it is at the forefront of computational science.
 

What is Radiation?
Earth Radiance vs Blackbody Spectra
What are Clouds Radiative Processes?
What are the Clouds Forcing and Feedbacks?
Plank' Law?
A word about a balance
Want to see scattering?
A few words about absorption emission and reflection
What can be done about clouds optical depth?
So the radiative equation will look just like that
And the transmittance is...
If you want to compare between Geo and Leo-the satellites: here it is.
And a link to the guys who will provide Earth radiation data
The TIROS Program
Global Clouds
From Satellite Data to Images of Clouds

Terra:

Remote Sensing of The Ocean
 

A few links to Remote Sensing of Ocean color:

Noaa Ocean Color
John Hopkins Remote sensing of sea
Links to satellite data
Rhode Island Uni. remote sensing of ocean color
Remote Sensing of the Oceans at UNH (New Hampshire)

A few links to Remote Sensing of Ocean Temperature:

What is Sea Surface Temperature ?
and The Sea Temperature
Noaa Ocean Temperature
Sea Temperature Data Links

Our noble teachers:
Dr.James Miller
Dr. Scott M. Glenn
Dr.Jennifer E. Francis

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