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Image of the Week Archive — November 2006
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Derivation of Realistic High-resolution Cloud Structure
November 26, 2006 —
Clouds with their three-dimensional structure are highly volatile objects to study. Currently there are no techniques to measure 3D fields of cloud properties. Various means of measuring them like airborne in-situ, ground-based cloud radar, passive and . . . [continued]
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A snapshot of clouds and aerosols over China on October 28, 2006
November 19, 2006 —
These 4 panels show very different aspects of a scene captured by the MODIS instrument aboard the Aqua polar orbiting satellite. The MODIS instrument records radiances from 36 spectral bands at a typical spatial resolution of 1km. These radiances are used . . . [continued]
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Cloud Fraction for Liquid Water and Ice Clouds
November 12, 2006 —
Clouds occur in the Earth’s atmosphere in both liquid water and ice phases. John Aitken, a Scottish physicist who did research on atmospheric dust and the formation of dew, cyclones, and evaporation, first reported in 1880 that when water vapor condenses . . . [continued]
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