cloud cover
Effects of an assumed cosmic ray-modulated low global cloud cover on the Earth’s temperature
... ray modulated forcing on the global oceanic cloud cover during 1984-1990. They found that in the NH the surface temperature present a decrease of ~0.01 °C in average. This decrease is almost the same for ...
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Late Twentieth Century Warming and Variations in Cloud Cover
... in cloud cover as part of larger paper focusing largely on variations in solar ...global cloud cover but dealt mainly with surface reflectivity at 340 ...and cloud cover on the ...
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Observations of increased cloud cover over irrigated agriculture in an arid environment
... fractional cloud cover data from the Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) Cloud Property Dataset using the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI), edition 2 ...
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Impact of Terrain and Cloud Cover on the Distribution of Incoming Direct Solar Radiation over Pakistan
... (L2) cloud fraction products and observational data of cloud cover from 21 meteorological observatories in Pakistan were incorporated to quantify the cloud cover in- fluences on solar ...
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Increasing cloud cover in the 20th century: review and new findings in Spain
... Abstract. Visual observations of clouds have been per- formed since the establishment of meteorological observa- tories during the early instrumental period, and have become more systematic and reliable after the ...
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THE RELATION BETWEEN CLOUD COVER AND SOME ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLE OVER BAGHDAD CITY
... between cloud cover with evaporation and three components of radiation for six years from (2000) to (2005) over Baghdad city , these variables were selected due to their importance and direction impact on ...
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Cloud cover and horizontal plane eye damaging solar UV exposures
... the cloud cover were measured at intervals of five minutes with an integrated cloud and spectral UV measurement system at a sub-tropical Southern Hemisphere site for a six month period and solar ...
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ELIFAN, an algorithm for the estimation of cloud cover from sky imagers
... a cloud-free line of sight (Johnson and Hering, ...of cloud cover ...estimate cloud-base height (Allmen and Kegelmeyer, 1996; Kassianov et ...
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Changes in cloud cover associated with Forbush decreases of galactic cosmic rays
... Nevertheless, the observed structure of cloud cover changes involving a small increase (large decrease) in cloud at • • 30øN (polar latitudes) might be expected to result from[r] ...
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Evaluation of modeled surface ozone biases as a function of cloud cover fraction
... and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the presence of solar radiation. While local ozone production is affected by numerous factors, including precursor emissions and me- teorological conditions such as temperature ...
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Characterization of cloud cover with a smartphone camera
... 17 18 For both the Whole Sky Camera and the Total Sky Imager, the ratio of the red/blue pixels is 19 employed to distinguish between no cloud and cloud covered sky as the red pixel va[r] ...
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The recent developments in cloud removal approaches of MODIS snow cover product
... of cloud cover, the IMS produces near-real-time products with spatial resolu- tions of ∼ 1, ∼ 4, and ∼ 24 km, which provide the input for atmospheric forecast models (Brown et ...snow cover (FSC), ...
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Impact of Climatic Parameters on the Performance of Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Module in Niamey
... The sensitivity of mono-crystalline solar PV module towards dust accumula- tion, ambient temperature, relative humidity, and cloud cover is investigated from May to August 2015 for Niamey’s environment. Two ...
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Radiative budget and cloud radiative effect over the Atlantic from ship-based observations
... The SCM has been applied to measurements from the ship tracks of ANT-XXIV/1, ANT-XXIV/4 and ANT-XXV/5 with a T31 horizontal resolution with 19 vertical levels and a temporal resolution of 15 min. The model input consists ...
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The Monash Simple Climate Model experiments (MSCM-DB v1.0): an interactive database of mean climate, climate change, and scenario simulations
... Similar to the oceans, the hydrological cycle dampens the seasonal cycle (Fig. 6g), but with a much weaker ampli- tude. The transport of water vapour away from warm and moist regions (e.g. tropical oceans) to cold and ...
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Canopy Removal On Satellite Images Using Classification And Contrast Enhancement
... of cloud cover in image data processing paper describes a cloud cover is a persistent problem with image processing in tropical regions of the ...acquiring cloud-free satellite ...find ...
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Brief Communication: Climatic, meteorological and topographical causes of the 16–17 June 2013 Kedarnath (India) natural disaster event
... high cloud cover (60–90 %) and rel- ative humidity (70–100 %), associated with low (< 4 m s −1 ) wind velocity, are observed over the Kedarnath region dur- ing 15–17 ...
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Regional climate hindcast simulations within EURO-CORDEX: evaluation of a WRF multi-physics ensemble
... total cloud cover and underestima- tion of downward shortwave radiation at the surface, mostly linked to the Grell–Devenyi convection and CAM (Commu- nity Atmosphere Model) radiation schemes, intensifies ...
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Influence of solar ultraviolet-B on pelagic fish embryos: osmolality, mortality and viable hatch
... characterized by the disturbed arctic vortex. For the area of the North Sea, which is of interest in the present study, continuous observations from the Total Ozone Mapping Satellite (TOMS) show high short-term ozone ...
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The Influence of Atmospheric Parameters on Production and Distribution of Air Pollutants in Bayelsa: A State in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
... temperature, cloud cover and solar radiations were eliminated from the regres- sion equation for CH 4 because of their very weak significant values in the ...
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