The overall goals of the working group were to determine what datasets of cloud properties and radiative fluxes from satellite data are planned and to lay the foundation for collaborative studies involving the validation of satellite retrievals using aircraft and surface observations. No problems in the acquisition of satellite radiance data are anticipated.
Most data are in-hand.
What and Who The following table lists the variables that will be retrieved from satellite data and the primary investigators. The next section provides additional details on each of the investigator's products. Investigators are given in parentheses. Refer to the previous section for a list of variables to be generated by each investigator. The variables needed for validation from surface-based instruments and their sources are given in the following table.