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Measurements of water vapor and high clouds over the Tibetan plateau with the terra modis instrument
2003
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
We expect that the water vapor and high-cloud measurements with MODIS can be used to improve the model initialization and validation for climate models involving the Tibetan Plateau and the nearby regions ...
The seasonal variations of water vapor and cirrus clouds over the Tibetan Plateau are investigated using the recently available Level 3 monthly-mean atmospheric data products with a 1 1 latitude-longitude ...
SUMMARY We have studied the seasonal variations of water vapor and high clouds over the Tibetan Plateau using two years of the Terra MODIS Level 3 monthly-mean data products from November 2000 to October ...
doi:10.1109/tgrs.2003.810704
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MODIS observed seasonal and interannual variations of atmospheric conditions associated with hydrological cycle over Tibetan Plateau
2006
Geophysical Research Letters
Liu, 2005: Seasonal migration of cirrus clouds over the Asian monsoon regions and the Tibetan Plateau measured from MODIS/Terra. , 2002: Global land cover mapping from MODIS: Algorithms and early results ...
In this paper, five years (2000-2005) of aerosols, clouds, water vapor and cirrus observations measured by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...
For example, corresponding to the seasonality of water vapor and clouds, rainfall is high in summer and low in winter, which is consistent with cloud properties and water vapor (Figure 5b ). ...
doi:10.1029/2006gl026713
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Land–biosphere–atmosphere interactions over the Tibetan plateau from MODIS observations
2012
Environmental Research Letters
More importantly, using the most recent climatology of land skin temperature, spatially high correlation coefficients are found among normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), water vapor and cloud ...
inter-annual variations of skin temperature over the Tibetan plateau (75-100 • E, 27-45 • N) at 0.05 • × 0.05 • resolution. ...
Some of the work is analyzed via NASA GIOVANNI online visualization tool. ...
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014003
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Seasonal migration of cirrus clouds over the Asian Monsoon regions and the Tibetan Plateau measured from MODIS/Terra
2005
Geophysical Research Letters
., and X. Liu (2005), Seasonal migration of cirrus clouds over the Asian Monsoon regions and the Tibetan Plateau measured from MODIS/Terra, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L01804, ...
examined the seasonal variations of water vapor and cirrus clouds over the Tibetan Plateau for 2002, and found that the mean of high-cloud reflectance over the Plateau reaches its maximum in April and ...
Using water vapor and cirrus clouds data derived from the multichannel imaging data acquired with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra Spacecraft, Gao et al. [2003] ...
doi:10.1029/2004gl020868
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Analysis on Precipitable Water Vapor over the Tibetan Plateau Using FengYun-3A Medium Resolution Spectral Imager Products
2019
Journal of Sensors
Firstly, the accuracy of the MERSI 5-minute water vapor product is validated using three referenced water vapor data from TERRA/MODIS, ground-based GPS, and AERONET sun photometer over the Tibetan Plateau ...
The topographical factors of the Tibetan Plateau were found to affect the water vapor, where the altitude and latitude are negatively correlated with water vapor, while the slope and longitude show a positive ...
vapor over the Tibetan Plateau, the accuracy of MERSI 5minute water vapor products is firstly evaluated by three sources of water vapor data retrieved from the measurements of TERRA/MODIS, the ground-based ...
doi:10.1155/2019/6078591
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CLOUD DETECTION BASED ON DECISION TREE OVER TIBETAN PLATEAU WITH MODIS DATA
2012
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
And then with a great deal repeating scenes coming from the same area the cloud pixel can be replaced by "its" real surface types, such as snow pixel or vegetation or water. ...
An unbelievable situation in mapping snow cover is the existence of clouds. Clouds can easily be found in any image from satellite, because clouds are bright and white in the visible wavelengths. ...
In this paper, a decision tree was built to recognize the clouds from background for the MODIS data over Tibetan Plateau. ...
doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-xxxix-b8-535-2012
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Short circuit of water vapor and polluted air to the global stratosphere by convective transport over the Tibetan Plateau
2006
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Numerical simulations suggest that Ϸ75% of the total summer water vapor transport into the global tropical stratosphere may occur over the South Asian monsoon and Tibetan Plateau (TP) regions (3) , contributing ...
During boreal summer, much of the water vapor and CO entering the global tropical stratosphere is transported over the Asian monsoon͞Tibetan Plateau (TP) region. ...
Wenhong Li and Susan Ryan for their help with the preparation of the manuscript. ...
doi:10.1073/pnas.0601584103
pmid:16585523
pmcid:PMC1458630
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A Satellite View of the Radiative Impact of Clouds on Surface Downward Fluxes in the Tibetan Plateau
2015
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Using 13 yr of satellite observations for the Tibetan Plateau, the sensitivities (or partial derivatives) of daytime surface downward shortwave and longwave fluxes with respect to changes in cloud cover ...
at 11 stations across the plateau are used to examine the spatial and seasonal variability of this sensitivity over the entire plateau. ...
The ground-based climate data were obtained from the China Meteorological Administration. ...
doi:10.1175/jamc-d-14-0183.1
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General Macro- and Microphysical Properties of Deep Convective Clouds as Observed by MODIS
2010
Journal of Climate
The findings have important implications in studying radiation budget, ice cloud microphysics parameterization, and troposphere-stratosphere water vapor exchange. * Current affiliations: ...
In this paper the authors use remote sensing data mainly from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) cloud product to investigate a few general cloud macro-and microphysical properties ...
Finally, we thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. ...
doi:10.1175/2009jcli3136.1
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Global Distribution of Water Vapor and Cloud Cover—Sites for High-Performance THz Applications
2014
IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology
We performed a global analysis of PWV with high-resolution measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on two NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites over the year of 2011 ...
Notably, we show that up through 1 THz, systems could be built in excellent sites of Chile, Greenland and the Tibetan Plateau, while Antarctic performance is good to 1.6 THz. ...
The high resolution of the instrument coupled with global land and sea coverage makes MODIS data unique. ...
doi:10.1109/tthz.2013.2294018
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Validation of MODIS Terra, AIRS, NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis-2, and AERONET Sun photometer derived integrated precipitable water vapor using ground-based GPS receivers over India
2009
Journal of Geophysical Research
2009), Validation of MODIS Terra, AIRS, NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis-2, and AERONET Sun photometer derived integrated precipitable water vapor using ground-based GPS receivers over India, [1] Water vapor ...
Singh (2009), Validation of MODIS Terra, AIRS, NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis-2, and AERONET Sun photometer derived integrated precipitable water vapor using ground-based GPS receivers over India, ...
The GPS at IIT Kanpur was deployed and maintained with the financial support of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, through a research project on GPS to one of us (R.P.S.). ...
doi:10.1029/2008jd011230
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Estimation of Daily Solar Radiation Budget at Kilometer Resolution over the Tibetan Plateau by Integrating MODIS Data Products and a DEM
2016
Remote Sensing
Considering large and complex areas like the Tibetan Plateau, an analysis of the spatial distribution of the solar radiative budget over time not only requires the use of satellite remote sensing data, ...
The objective is to account for the heterogeneity of the land surface using multiple land surface and atmospheric MODIS data products combined with a digital elevation model to produce estimations daily ...
The methodology to estimate solar radiative fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau is implemented using Terra-MODIS atmospheric and land products level 2 and 3. ...
doi:10.3390/rs8060504
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Mapping High-Resolution Land Surface Radiative Fluxes from MODIS: Algorithms and Preliminary Validation Results
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2009
Geospatial Technology for Earth Observation
The observed reduction in land surface radiation over the last several decades , the so-called "dimming effect," and the more recent evidence of a reversal in "dimming" over some locations beyond 1990 ...
Overestimation of the incoming solar radiation over land has major impacts on the climate over land (Betts et al. 1996 , Dickinson 1995 , Garratt et al. 1993 . ...
Several students have also contributed to data processing and product validation, including Mark Plavnieks, Erica Hafer, and Jennifer Himmelstein. ...
doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0050-0_6
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Estimation of the Land Surface Temperature over the Tibetan Plateau by Using Chinese FY-2C Geostationary Satellite Data
2018
Sensors
The diurnal variation of the LST and the hourly time series of the LST over the Tibetan Plateau were also obtained. ...
According to the data of FengYun 2C (FY-2C) satellite and the measurements from the Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) of the Asia-Australia Monsoon Project (CAMP) on the Tibetan Plateau (CAMP/Tibet), a ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/s18020376
pmid:29382089
pmcid:PMC5854969
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A global water vapor data set obtained by merging the SSMI and MODIS data
2004
Geophysical Research Letters
1] At present, the column amount of atmospheric water vapor over clear land surfaces and over oceanic areas with sun glint is operationally retrieved from radiances measured with near-IR channels of the ...
Moderate Resolution Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MODIS) instruments on board the NASA Terra and Aqua Spacecraft platforms. ...
For example, very small amounts of water vapor are observed over southern Australia, the Tibetan Plateau in Asia, and Andes Mountains in South America. ...
doi:10.1029/2004gl020656
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