Abstract
The manner in which cirrus clouds influence the radiation budget of the earth and atmosphere is poorly understood and yet is fundamentally important to the greenhouse and other climate and global change related topics. We have begun a program designed to obtain moderate resolution infrared spectra of cirrus clouds in the 2-14-μm region. Our goals are to measure the down-welling atmospheric radiation flux of the clear and cloud skies, obtain cloud emissivities and, with the use of models, extract the particle shape and size distributions. Observations to date have been made from Mauna Kea, Mt. Lemmon, Los Angeles, Boulder, and from NASA’s C-141 airborne observatory.
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