Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing
Research in this field covers four broad, overlapping areas. The first involves the understanding of interactions between solar and infrared radiation in an atmosphere containing clouds. This leads to research addressing energetics that relate radiative transfer to dynamical systems such as climate and numerical weather prediction. The second area focuses primarily on remote sensing of atmospheric hydrologic parameters such as water vapor, clouds, and rain by spaceborn platforms including Aqua, SSM/I, TRMM, and CloudSat as well as surface and aircraft based platforms. The third component focuses on radiative transfer modeling efforts and instrument development and measurement programs aimed at testing new remote sensing techniques. The fourth and final area of research involves inversion methods and related analyses to better understand and construct algorithms for use under complex circumstances to extract the most meaningful data possible.
- AT622 - Atmospheric Radiation
- AT650 - Measurements and Instruments
- AT652 - Atmospheric Remote Sensing
- AT721 - Theoretical Topics in Radiative Transfer
- AT722 - Radiation and Energy
- AT737 - Satellite Observation of the Earth and Atmosphere
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