SATELLITE METEOROLOGY How It All Started, 50 Years Ago

The instrument was designed to measure the most basic meteorological parameter: the balance between incoming solar radiation to the atmosphere and the radiation exiting the atmosphere as a result of reflection and emission processes. United States participation in the International Geophysical Year...

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Published inBulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 90; no. 10; pp. 1435 - 1436
Main Authors Menzel, W. Paul, Phillips, Jean M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston American Meteorological Society 01.10.2009
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ANNIVERSARY
Atmosphere
Atmospheric radiation
Clouds
Design engineering
Meteorological satellites
Meteorology
Radiation
Satellites
Solar radiation
Terrestrial radiation
Thermal radiation
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Summary:The instrument was designed to measure the most basic meteorological parameter: the balance between incoming solar radiation to the atmosphere and the radiation exiting the atmosphere as a result of reflection and emission processes. United States participation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY) was enhanced with the announcement by the National Science Foundation and National Academy of Sciences in 1955 of plans for "construction of a small, unmanned, earth-circling satellite to be used for basic scientific observations."
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/2009BAMS2963.1