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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sadler, James C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: International Indian Ocean Expedition Meteorological Monographs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (72 p.)

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.

Table of 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