Abstract The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments on board
the Terra and Aqua spacecraft continue to provide an unprecedented global climate record …

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant
Energy System (CERES) Project was designed to improve our understanding of the …

The Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) is a new international program to
assure the comparability of satellite measurements taken at different times and locations by …

Objective techniques have been developed to consistently identify cloudy pixels over
nonpolar regions in multispectral imager data coincident with measurements taken by the …

Vegetation fires are a key global terrestrial disturbance factor and a major source of
atmospheric trace gases and aerosols. Therefore, many earth-system science and …

Deep convective clouds (DCCs) are ideal visible calibration targets because they are bright
nearly isotropic solar reflectors located over the tropics and they can be easily identified …

The most common method of ascertaining cloud heights from space is from thermal
brightness temperatures. Deep convective clouds of high water content are expected to …

A set of cloud retrieval algorithms developed for CERES and applied to MODIS data have
been adapted to analyze other satellite imager data in near-real time. The cloud products …

The role of clouds remains the largest uncertainty in climate projections. They influence
solar and thermal radiative transfer and the earth's water cycle. Therefore, there is an urgent …

Infrared (11 μm) radiances from GOES‐8 and local radiosonde profiles, collected during the
Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers‐Florida Area Cirrus Experiment …