Larry L. Stowe

TL;DR: The very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) is an instrument on a polar orbiting satellite that provides information on global aerosol distributions as mentioned in this paper, which can usually be interpreted in terms of known (or reasonably hypothesized) sources in association with climatological wind fields.

TL;DR: Radiative flux anomalies derived from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spaceborne Earth Radiation Budget Experiment were used to determine the volcanic radiative forcing that followed the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991, making them the first unambiguous, direct measurements of large-scale volcanic forcing.

TL;DR: These algorithms are a prototype for the system that will produce the scientific data required for studying the role of clouds and radiation in the Earth's climate system, and are fundamental to the ability to understand, detect, and predict global climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, a revised single-channel algorithm for aerosol optical thickness, tau(sup A)(sub SAT), retrieval over oceans from radiances in channel 1 (0.63 microns) of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) has been implemented at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service for the NOAA 14 satellite launched December 30, 1994.

TL;DR: The Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment (TARFOX) was designed to reduce this uncertainty by measuring and analyzing aerosol properties and effects on the United States eastern seaboard, where one of the world's major plumes of urban/industrial haze moves from the continent over the Atlantic Ocean.