COMPUTATIONS OF DOWNWARD RADIATION FLUX BASED UPON A RANDOM SAMPLE OF RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS, AND CORRELATION OF THE RESULTS WITH CORRESPONDING SIMULATED NIMBUS II SATELLITE AIR MASS PROPERTIES.
Abstract
Relying heavily on the Elsasser and Culbertson (1960) computational system, computations of terrestrial radiation incident at a black body interface have been programmed for an arbitrary atmospheric sounding. The program has been applied to a random sampling of 62 radiosondes from the 'Wark-sounding-catalog.' Since Wark et al. (1966) have kindly made available simulated Nimbus II channel 2 and channel 4 specific intensities for these same atmospheres, a multivariate regression was derived relating downward flux computations to Nimbus II channel 2 and channel 4 readouts as well as to two other gross air parameters: (a) total reduced water vapor depth, and (b) interface pressure. All four independent variables gave high statistical significance, with channel 4 filtered flux accounting for the major portion of the 'explained variance' of the dependent variable. Total ozone was also tested but yielded no statistical significance on the regression. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0818839
Entities
People
- Jesus Bonifacio Tupaz
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School