AVHRR clear-sky radiation data sets at NOAA/NESDIS

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Jan 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994adspr..14..113s&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 113-116.

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Currently, global cloud amount estimates from the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) experimental cloud remote sensing algorithm, CLAVR (Clouds from AVHRR) - Phase I, are biased towards 50% cloud cover. This is caused by assigning 50% cloud amount to 2×2 global area coverage (GAC) pixel arrays which have been classified as ``mixed''. The classification identifies pixel arrays that are spatially non-uniform in albedo or temperature. To remove this source of bias, a clear-sky radiation data set (CRDS) is produced from ``clear'' pixels located in half degree latitude/longitude grids. Statistics of each channel's radiation measurements are computed over the 9-day repeat cycle of the polar orbiting satellite. The previous 8-day CRDS record is then used to predict the clear-sky radiation values for the current day (9th day) being processed. These are used to reclassify mixed pixels into clear or cloudy categories.

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