Average Cloudiness in the Tropics from Satellite Observations / James C. Sadler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadler, James C., Author.

Series:

International Indian Ocean Expedition Meteorological Monographs

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since January, 1965, weather satellites have made pictures at least once a day of the whole earth. Although at first the information was used primarily to help day-to-day weather forecasting, enough data has now accumulated for scientists to begin climatological studies in a new and serious way. This monograph reports a pioneering attempt to describe and partly to account for the distribution of average cloudiness for each month from February, 1965, through January, 1967. The work, at first fancied to the Indian Ocean Tropics, was expanded to encompass the whole tropical zone between 30N and 30S. Hand averaging is being continued at the University of Hawaii beyond January 1967 in the expectation that computers will eventually take over the job.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgment

Contents

Abstract

PART 1: Introduction

I. PREVIOUS WORK

II. ADVENT OF METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES

PART 2: Data

III. SOURCE AND CODING

IV. EXTRACTION AND AVERAGING

V. VOLUME AND DISTRIBUTION

VI. ANALYSIS (Plates I-XII)

PART 3: Discussion

VII. GLOBAL AND HEMISPHERIC CLOUDINESS

VIII. DISTRIBUTION OF CLOUDINESS (Plates I-XII)

IX. MERIDIONAL PROFILES OF ZONAL AVERAGES

X. COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS CLIMATOLOGY

XI. COMPARISON WITH RAINFALL AVERAGES

XII. CONCLUDING REMARKS

Notes and References

Plates

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

ISBN:

0-8248-8541-4

OCLC:

1253313331