The Institute of Radiation and Remote Sensing (IRRS) pursues researchareas associated with remote sensing of clouds from satellites, computer simulations of radiative transfer in cloud and aerosol atmospheres, light scattering and spectroscopy involving ice crystal clouds, and applications of radiation and cloud research to climate studies.

Personnel

Research Programs

Recent Publications (2002-2005)

Highlights of Research and Development
 
 

Remote sensing of three-dimensional inhomogeneous cirrus clouds using satellite and mm-wave cloud radar data (222 KB)

Interpretation of cirrus cloud polarization measurements from radiative transfer theory (249 KB)

Mapping the frozen sky from Science News (181 KB)

Parameterization of cloud/radiation in the UCLA general circulation model (3024 KB)

Detection of thin cirrus from satellites (390KB)

Laser transmission through thin cirrus (945 KB)

Radiative transfer in 3D clouds and inhomogeneous surfaces (324 KB)

Satellite remote sensing of clouds in a laboratory setting

Cirrus clouds and climate (49 KB)

Remote sensing of thin cirrus/aerosols (182 KB)

Polarized delta four stream approximation for infrared and microwave radiative transfer: Application to satellite data assimilation

Recent Lectures