This paper reviews the many developments in estimates of the direct and indirect global
annual mean radiative forcing due to present‐day concentrations of anthropogenic …

Land surface radiation and energy budgets are critical components of any land surface
models that characterize hydrological, ecological and biogeochemical processes. The …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

With the launch of NASA's Terra satellite and the MODerate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS), operational Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function …

An algorithm based on the physics of radiative transfer in vegetation canopies for the
retrieval of vegetation green leaf area index (LAI) and fraction of absorbed …

Spectral albedo may be derived from atmospherically corrected, cloud-cleared multiangular
reflectance observations through the inversion of a bidirectional reflectance distribution …

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a
vital component of the environment. This is because of their role in biogeochemical cycling …

Dust storms are recognized as having a very wide range of environmental impacts. Their
geomorphological interest lies in the amount of deflation and wind erosion they indicate and …

The launch of ADEOS in August 1996 with POLDER, TOMS, and OCTS instruments on
board and the future launch of EOS‐AM 1 in mid‐1998 with MODIS and MISR instruments …

This paper describes the theory and the algorithm to be used in producing a global
bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) and albedo product from data to be …