Reconciling opposing Walker circulation trends in observations and model projections

ES Chung, A Timmermann, BJ Soden, KJ Ha… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
A strengthening of the Pacific Walker circulation (PWC) over recent decades triggered an
intense debate on the validity of model-projected weakening of the PWC in response to …

[HTML][HTML] 高光谱热红外遥感: 现状与展望

吴骅, 李秀娟, 李召良, 段四波, 钱永刚 - 遥感学报, 2021 - ygxb.ac.cn
高光谱热红外数据中蕴含着丰富的长波光谱信息, 可以更精细的揭示地气耦合过程导致的辐射
变化, 反映热红外谱段特有的地物诊断特征, 同时高光谱特性也可以为热红外关键特征参数的 …

Upper-tropospheric moistening in response to anthropogenic warming

ES Chung, B Soden, BJ Sohn… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Water vapor in the upper troposphere strongly regulates the strength of water-vapor
feedback, which is the primary process for amplifying the response of the climate system to …

Cloud property datasets retrieved from AVHRR, MODIS, AATSR and MERIS in the framework of the Cloud_cci project

M Stengel, S Stapelberg, O Sus… - Earth System …, 2017 - essd.copernicus.org
New cloud property datasets based on measurements from the passive imaging satellite
sensors AVHRR, MODIS, ATSR2, AATSR and MERIS are presented. Two retrieval systems …

[HTML][HTML] Meteosat land surface temperature climate data record: Achievable accuracy and potential uncertainties

A Duguay-Tetzlaff, VA Bento, FM Göttsche, R Stöckli… - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites'(EUMETSAT)
Meteosat satellites provide the unique opportunity to compile a 30+ year land surface …

Comparison of assimilating all‐sky and clear‐sky infrared radiances from Himawari‐8 in a mesoscale system

K Okamoto, Y Sawada, M Kunii - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the advantages of infrared all‐sky radiance (ASR) assimilation over
traditional clear‐sky radiance (CSR) assimilation using a mesoscale LETKF data …

Assimilating every‐10‐minute Himawari‐8 infrared radiances to improve convective predictability

Y Sawada, K Okamoto, M Kunii… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Improving the predictability of sudden local severe weather is a grand challenge for
numerical weather prediction. Recently, the capability of geostationary satellites to observe …

Evaluation of IR radiance simulation for all‐sky assimilation of Himawari‐8/AHI in a mesoscale NWP system

K Okamoto - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To assimilate the all‐sky infrared radiances of Himawari‐8/AHI (Advanced Himawari
Imager), we investigated the statistical characteristics of a radiance simulation from a …

[HTML][HTML] A new approach to defining uncertainties for MODIS land surface temperature

D Ghent, K Veal, T Trent, E Dodd, H Sembhi… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The accuracy of land surface temperature (LST) observations is critical to many applications.
Any observation of LST is subject to incomplete knowledge, so an accurate assessment of …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieval of total precipitable water from Himawari-8 AHI data: A comparison of random forest, extreme gradient boosting, and deep neural network

Y Lee, D Han, MH Ahn, J Im, SJ Lee - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Total precipitable water (TPW), a column of water vapor content in the atmosphere, provides
information on the spatial distribution of moisture. The high-resolution TPW, together with …