A computer simulation has been developed to optimize the use of the aircraft platform for the measurement of short wave irradiances. This model simulates the measurement of radiative fluxes in order to determine the approximate sample sizes required under various conditions of cloudiness.
An analysis of the measurement of the Earth Radiation Budget components both by standard radiometric principles and radiation pressure principles has been carried out in the context of a complete radiation budget experiment.
Surface measurements of upwelling and downwelling, longwave and shortwave fluxes were made at two sites in western Colorado during January and February 1992, to determine the radiative effects on maintaining or destroying stable layers.
In July 1990, the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU) received a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to deploy Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) measurement stations in a region of the equatorial western Pacific in order to collect data for a pilot study of the radiation budget.