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Albert Arking
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 24
Citations - 1312
Albert Arking is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cloud cover & Radiative transfer. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 24 publications receiving 1287 citations.
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Retrieval of Cloud Cover Parameters from Multispectral Satellite Images
Albert Arking,Jeffrey D. Childs +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a technique for extracting cloud cover parameters from multispectral satellite radiometric measurements is described, where three channels from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on NOAA polar orbiting satellites are used to retrieve four parameters for each pixel: cloud fraction within the FOV, optical thickness, cloud-top temperature and a microphysical model parameter.
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The Radiative Effects of Clouds and their Impact on Climate
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of clouds on the incoming and outgoing radiation at the top of the atmosphere, and the two-way interaction of clouds with other variables of the climate system are examined.
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ISCCP Cloud Algorithm Intercomparison
William B. Rossow,F. Mosher,E. Kinsella,Albert Arking,Michel Desbois,Edwin F. Harrison,Patrick Minnis,Eberhard Ruprecht,Eberhard Ruprecht,Geneviève Sèze,Clemens Simmer,Eric A. Smith +11 more
TL;DR: The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) project as discussed by the authors conducted a pilot study initiated in late 1981 to evaluate currently available cloud analysis algorithms, which focused on the most fundamental step of any cloud algorithm, namely cloud detection.
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The influence of line shape and band structure on temperatures in planetary atmospheres
Albert Arking,Kenneth Grossman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of line shape and band structure on the radiative equilibrium temperature profile in planetary atmospheres have been examined and a method for calculating radiative terms is developed which avoids the usual approximations.
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Effects of Nontropical Forest Cover on Climate
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of snow-albedo feedback in increasing the climate sensitivity to external perturbations is reexamined using variations of the solar constant to force climate changes in the GLAS Multi-Layer Energy Balance Model.