John T. Suttles

TL;DR: The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) as discussed by the authors carries a three-channel scanning radiometer and a set of nadir-looking wide and medium field-of-view instruments for measuring the radiation emitted from earth and the solar radiation reflected from earth.

TL;DR: The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) as discussed by the authors is a satellite radiation monitoring system that produces monthly averages of the net radiant exitance on regional, zonal, and global scales and provides insight into the regional diurnal variability of radiative parameters such as albedo and long-wave radiant exitingance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the results of the first International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project Regional Experiment (FIRE) with theoretical models of cloud radiative properties, and found good agreement between observations and theory when water droplets dominate and poor agreement when ice particles dominate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ERBE algorithm is applied to the Nimbus-7 earth radiation budget (ERB) scanner data for June 1979 to analyze the performance of an inversion method in deriving top-of-atmosphere albedos and long-wave radiative fluxes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed reflectance and emittance models for the Sahara-Arabian, Gibson, and Saudi Deserts by fitting the satellite measurements to analytic functions for shortwave and longwave radiance measurements obtained from the Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget scanner.