Mediterranean cloud system variability inferred from satellite observations

SST subseasonal variability in the central Benguela upwelling system as inferred from satellite observations (1999-2009)

Global inundation dynamics inferred from multiple satellite observations , 1993 – 2000

[1] Wetlands and surface waters are recognized to play important roles in climate, hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles, and availability of water resources. Until now, quantitative, global time series of spatial and temporal dynamics of inundation have been unavailable. This study presents the first global estimate of monthly inundated areas for 1993–2000. The data set is derived from a multis...

Total cloud cover from satellite observations and climate models

Article history: Received 27 April 2011 Received in revised form 10 January 2012 Accepted 10 January 2012 Available online xxxx Global and zonal monthly means of cloud cover fraction for total cloudiness (CF) from the ISCCP D2 dataset are compared to same quantities produced by the 20th century simulations of 21 climatemodels from theWorld Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) CoupledModel Inte...

Arctic Cloud Changes from Surface and Satellite Observations

Visual cloud reports from land and ocean regions of the Arctic are analyzed for total cloud cover. Trends and interannual variations in surface cloud data are compared to those obtained from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Television and Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) satellite data. Over the Arctic as a whole, trends and interann...

The spatial scale dependence of water vapor variability inferred from observations from a very tall tower

Recent studies have established that atmospheric water vapor fields exhibit spatial spectra that take the form of power laws and hence can be compactly characterized by scaling exponents. The power law scaling exponents have been shown to exhibit substantial vertical variability. In this work, Taylor’s frozen turbulence hypothesis is used to infer the first-order spatial structure function and ...