EOS Validation

Validation Activity of Desert Encroachment Zone in Sub-Sahel Africa

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
University of Maryland, College Park


Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science



Background

Observation Site

Scientific Observations

Activity

Motivation

Publications

Data

Station Maintenance

Results

Calibration

Collaboration

Acknowledgements

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Acknowledgements


 

This work is supported under NASA EOS validation grant NAG-56464. Initiation funding has been provided by grant NSFD-INT-9015324, International Programs, NSF. The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) provided support for University of Ilorin personal to participate in Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) activities; Dr. E. Dutton and Professor A. Ohmura contributed spare parts and expertise. Thanks are due to the granting agencies, to the AERONET team, to Dr. D. Tanre for real time transmission of the CIMEL data, and to Drs. R. Newson, Hans W. Teunissen and Gilles Sommeria-Klein, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland for their continuous effort on behalf of the Ilorin site.

The work that led to the satellite estimates of the surface radiative fluxes from the PATHFINDER data sets was initiated under grant NAGW4740 from the Earth Science Data and Information System Branch (Dr. M. E. Maiden, Director), and continued under grant NAG56667 from the Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) Program, Science Division (Dr. J. C. Dodge, Director). The ISCCP data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Center.

Maintained by Chuan Li