Papers related to TOVS Path-P:

Background Papers

Chedin, A., N. A. Scott, C. Wahiche and P. Moulinier. 1985. The Improved Initialization Inversion Method: A high resolution physical method for temperature retrievals from satellites of the TIROS-N series. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 24:128-143.

Francis, J. A. 1994. Improvements to TOVS retrievals over sea ice and applications to estimating Arctic energy fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research 99(D5):10,395-408.

Stubenrauch, C.J, N. A., Scott and A. Chedin. 1996. Cloud Field Identification for Earth Radiation Budget Studies. Part I: Cloud Field Classification Using HIRS-MSU Sounder Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 35, 416-427

Stubenrauch, C. J., A. Chédin, R. Armante, N. A. Scott, 1999: Clouds as Seen by Satellite Sounders (3I) and Imagers (ISCCP). Part II: A New Approach for Cloud Parameter Determination in the 3I Algorithms. Journal of Climate: Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 2214–2223.

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Stubenrauch, C. J., W. B. Rossow, F. Chéruy, A. Chédin, N. A. Scott, 1999: Clouds as Seen by Satellite Sounders (3I) and Imagers (ISCCP). Part I: Evaluation of Cloud Parameters. Journal of Climate: Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 2189–2213.

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Scott, N.A, A. Chedin, R.Armante, J. Francis, C. Stubenrauch, J-P. Chaboureau, R. Chevallier, C. Claud, and F. Cheruy, 1999. Characteristics of the TOVS Pathfinder B data set. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., in press.

Summary Papers

A.J. Schweiger, R.Lindsay, J. Francis, J. Key, J.Intrieri, M. Shupe. (2002) Validation of TOVS Path-P data during SHEBA. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 107, NO.C10,8041 Download Manuscript (PDF)

Francis, J. A. and A. J. Schweiger. (2000). A New Window Opens on the Arctic, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 81, No.8, February, 22, 2000, Pages 77,83 Download Manuscript (PDF)

Francis, J. A. and A. J. Schweiger. (1999). The NASA TOVS Polar Pathfinder. 18 Years of Arctic data. Proceedings of the Fith Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, January 10-15, 1999, Dallas, TX. Download PDF

Francis, J. A , Schweiger, A. J. and D. Groves. The NASA Polar Pathfinder. 18 Years of Arctic data. Proceedings of the AMS conference, Paris, May, 1999

Papers on Path-P Clouds

Schweiger, A. J., R. W. Lindsay, J. R. Key, and J. A. Francis. 1999. Arctic clouds in multiyear satellite data sets. Geophysical Research Letters 26(13):1,845-48. Download from GRL Online (PDF) Read GRL Online (HTML) 

Application Papers

Schweiger, A. J. and J. Key. 1997. Estimating surface radiation fluxes in the Arctic from TOVS HIRS and MSU brightness Temperatures. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol 18., No. 4, 955-970

Lindsay, R.W. , J.A. Francis, P.O.G. Person, D.A. Rothrock and A.J. Schweiger. 1997. Surface Turbulent Fluxes over Pack Ice Inferred from TOVS observations. Annals of Glaciology. Vol. 25, 393-399

D. Groves, 1999. A new moisture budget of the Artic Atmosphere Derived from 19 Years of Daily TOVS Satellite Moisture Retrievals and NCEP Reanalysis winds. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Dallas, Tx, Jan 10-15 1999. p107-112

Francis, J.A., 1997. A method to derive downwelling longwave fluxes at the Arctic surface from TIROS operational vertical sounder data, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 1795-1806.

Francis, J. A., A. Munchow, and R. Cermak. 1999. Analyses of long-term 10-meter winds over the Arctic Basin. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Dallas, Tx, Jan 10-15 1999. p66-68.

Related Papers

A. J. Schweiger, C. Fowler, J. Key, J. Maslanik, J. Francis, R. Armstrong, M.J. Brodzik, T. Scambos, T. Haran, M. Ortmeyer, S. Khalsa, D. Rothrock and R. Weaver. (1999). P-Cube: A multisensor data set for polar climate research. Proceedings of the Fith Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, January 10-15, 1999, Dallas, TX. (Download PDF)

Duff, J., Salem, K., Schweiger, A., and Livny, M. (1997). Processing TOVS Polar Pathfinder Data Using the Distributed BatchController,Proc. SPIE, Vol. 3117, pp. 132-142, Earth Observing Systems II,William L. Barnes, Ed. (Download PDF)

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