Modeling the Variation of Cloud Cover with View Angle Using Space Shuttle Cloud Imagery

Abstract

This report documents the development of numerous elementary cloud cover models and evaluates the capability of each comparison with actual data. The data are measurements of apparent cloud cover as a function of view angle obtained from space shuttle cloud photographs. Using these data a physically realistic model for cumuliform cloud fields is obtained. The model permits the determination of actual cloud cover from a single-layer totally opaque clouds considered in this research. Additionally, the model is used to specify the probabilities are compared with similar ones obtained from other models of cloud-free line-of-sight commonly in use.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 1990
Accession Number
ADA227895

Entities

People

  • J. W. Snow

Organizations

  • Air Force Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cloud Cover
  • Clouds
  • Cumulus Clouds
  • Data Sets
  • Geometry
  • Images
  • Line Of Sight
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Photographic Images
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Probability
  • Space Shuttles
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Space