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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,461 Views
21 Pages

25 July 2023

Numerous scholars have used traditional thermal anomaly extraction methods and time series prediction models to study seismic anomalies based on longwave infrared radiation data. This paper selected bidirectional long short-term memory (BILSTM) as th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,113 Views
27 Pages

19 February 2019

Surface downward longwave radiation (DLR) is a crucial component in Earth’s surface energy balance. Yu et al. (2013) developed a parameterization for retrieving clear-sky DLR at high spatial resolution by combined use of satellite thermal infra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,028 Views
18 Pages

2 March 2023

Surface downward longwave radiation (SDLR) is significant with regard to surface energy budgets and climate research. The uncertainty of cloud base height (CBH) retrieval by remote sensing induces the vast majority of SDLR estimation errors under clo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,021 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2022

Outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) is a key factor to study the radiation balance of the earth–atmosphere system. It is of great significance to explore the temporal and spatial variation characteristics over the OLR value in China region and to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,129 Views
14 Pages

Extending the HIRS Data Record with IASI Measurements

  • Anand K. Inamdar,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Hai-Tien Lee,
  • Darren L. Jackson and
  • Jessica L. Matthews

26 January 2023

The High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) on the NOAA and the MetOp satellite series have provided global sounding measurements since the late 1970s, spanning over 40 years. These measurements have been useful in climate change detection,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,015 Views
16 Pages

The Combined ASTER and MODIS Emissivity over Land (CAMEL) Global Broadband Infrared Emissivity Product

  • Michelle Feltz,
  • Eva Borbas,
  • Robert Knuteson,
  • Glynn Hulley and
  • Simon Hook

28 June 2018

Infrared surface emissivity is needed for the calculation of net longwave radiation, a critical parameter in weather and climate models and Earth’s radiation budget. Due to a prior lack of spatially and temporally variant global broadband emissivity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,031 Views
20 Pages

25 November 2022

Surface longwave radiation (SLR) is an essential geophysical parameter of Earth’s energy balance, and its estimation based on thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing data has been extensively studied. However, it is difficult to estimate cloudy S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
511 Views
14 Pages

19 October 2025

High-speed impact is a critical mechanism for structural damage. The infrared signatures generated during fragment formation provide essential data for damage assessment, protective system design, and target identification. This study investigated an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,063 Views
8 Pages

17 May 2011

Narrow channels located in the longwave IR CO2 absorption region between approximately 13.2 and 14.5 μm, the well known CO2 slicing channels, have been proven to be quite effective for the estimates of cloud heights and effective cloud amounts as wel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,110 Views
30 Pages

21 November 2024

 To overcome the problems in existing infrared remote sensing image generation methods, which make it difficult to combine high fidelity and high efficiency, we propose a High-Fidelity Infrared Remote Sensing Image Generation Method Coupled with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,126 Views
17 Pages

Estimation of Top-of-Atmosphere Longwave Cloud Radiative Forcing Using FengYun-4A Geostationary Satellite Data

  • Ri Xu,
  • Jun Zhao,
  • Shanhu Bao,
  • Huazhe Shang,
  • Fangling Bao,
  • Gegen Tana and
  • Lesi Wei

17 April 2024

The distribution and variation of top-of-atmosphere longwave cloud radiative forcing (LCRFTOA) has drawn a significant amount of attention due to its importance in understanding the energy budget. Advancements in sensor and data processing technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,156 Views
16 Pages

Thermal Infrared and Ionospheric Anomalies of the 2017 Mw6.5 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake

  • Meijiao Zhong,
  • Xinjian Shan,
  • Xuemin Zhang,
  • Chunyan Qu,
  • Xiao Guo and
  • Zhonghu Jiao

1 September 2020

Taking the 2017 Mw6.5 Jiuzhaigou earthquake as a case study, ionospheric disturbances (i.e., total electron content and TEC) and thermal infrared (TIR) anomalies were simultaneously investigated. The characteristics of the temperature of brightness b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,321 Views
24 Pages

30 June 2024

Surface longwave radiation (SLR) plays a pivotal role in the Earth’s energy balance, influencing a range of environmental processes and climate dynamics. As the demand for high spatial resolution remote sensing products grows, there is an incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
12,695 Views
21 Pages

29 July 2014

Remote-sensing techniques offer an efficient alternative for mapping mining environments and assessing the impacts of mining activities. Airborne multispectral data in the thermal region and hyperspectral data in the optical region, acquired with the...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,838 Views
11 Pages

18 September 2016

We apply the principles of atmospheric surface layer dynamics within a vineyard canopy to demonstrate the use of forward-looking infrared cameras measuring surface brightness temperature (spectrum bandwidth of 7.5 to 14 μm) at a relatively high tempo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,802 Views
20 Pages

Simulation of CrIS Radiances Accounting for Realistic Properties of the Instrument Responsivity That Result in Spectral Ringing Features

  • Lori Borg,
  • Michelle Loveless,
  • Robert Knuteson,
  • Hank Revercomb,
  • Joe Taylor,
  • Yong Chen,
  • Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez and
  • David Tobin

5 January 2023

This paper provides a procedure for the simulation of radiances from the U. S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Fourier Transform Spectrometer to include spectral ringing effects caused by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,488 Views
18 Pages

9 October 2021

The High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) on NOAA and MetOp A/B satellites has been observing the Earth continuously for over four decades, providing essential data for operational numerical weather prediction, retrieval of atmospheric ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,306 Views
23 Pages

20 August 2025

Driven by the rising demand for digitalization and intelligent development of infrared payloads, next-generation systems must be developed within compressed timelines. High-precision digital modeling and simulation techniques offer essential data sou...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,184 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of Five Global Top-of-Atmosphere Outgoing Longwave Radiation Products

  • Chuan Zhan,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Yan Li,
  • Yong Chen,
  • Zuohua Miao,
  • Xiangyang Zeng and
  • Jun Li

26 July 2023

Five global monthly top-of-atmosphere (TOA) outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) products are evaluated in this study, including the products derived from the High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS), Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,369 Views
22 Pages

28 September 2023

Taking the Madoi MS 7.4 earthquake of 21 May 2021 as an example, this paper proposes using time series prediction models to predict the outgoing long-wave radiation (OLR) anomalies and study short-term pre-earthquake signals. Five time series predict...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,193 Views
13 Pages

21 August 2018

This study describes the development of a new globally gridded climate data record (CDR) for daily outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) using the High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) sensor. The new product, hereafter referred to as HIRS OL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,611 Views
14 Pages

Dark Current Noise Correction Method Based on Dark Pixels for LWIR QWIP Detection Systems

  • Haoting Du,
  • Jintong Xu,
  • Zihao Yin,
  • Mengyang Chai and
  • Dexin Sun

16 December 2022

The long-wave infrared (LWIR) quantum-well photodetector (QWIP) operates at low temperatures, but is prone to focal plane temperature changes when imaging in complex thermal environments. This causes dark current changes and generates low-frequency t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,747 Views
17 Pages

7 February 2018

Surface-upwelling longwave radiation (LWUP) is an important component of the surface radiation budget. Under the general framework of the hybrid method, the linear models and the multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) models are developed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,350 Views
18 Pages

Estimation and Evaluation of 15 Minute, 40 Meter Surface Upward Longwave Radiation Downscaled from the Geostationary FY-4B AGRI

  • Limeng Zheng,
  • Biao Cao,
  • Qiang Na,
  • Boxiong Qin,
  • Junhua Bai,
  • Yongming Du,
  • Hua Li,
  • Zunjian Bian,
  • Qing Xiao and
  • Qinhuo Liu

27 March 2024

Surface upward longwave radiation (SULR) is one of the four components of surface net radiation. Geostationary satellites can provide high temporal but coarse spatial resolution SULR products. Downscaling coarse SULR to a higher resolution is importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,421 Views
12 Pages

9 September 2021

This paper attempts to illustrate the complexity of thermal infrared (TIR) data analysis for urban heat island studies. While a certain shift regarding the use of correct scientific nomenclature (using the term “surface urban heat island”) could be o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,931 Views
26 Pages

Tropospheric and Ionospheric Anomalies Induced by Volcanic and Saharan Dust Events as Part of Geosphere Interaction Phenomena

  • Valerio Tramutoli,
  • Francesco Marchese,
  • Alfredo Falconieri,
  • Carolina Filizzola,
  • Nicola Genzano,
  • Katsumi Hattori,
  • Mariano Lisi,
  • Jann-Yenq Liu,
  • Dimitar Ouzounov and
  • Sergey Pulinets
  • + 2 authors

In this work, we assessed the possible relation of ionospheric perturbations observed by Detection of Electro-Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions (DEMETER), Global Positioning System total electron content (GPS TEC), National Ocean...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,525 Views
27 Pages

22 November 2021

Generating spatiotemporally continuous land surface temperature (LST) data is in great demand for hydrology, meteorology, ecology, environmental studies, etc. However, the thermal infrared (TIR)-based LST measurements are prone to cloud contamination...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,823 Views
25 Pages

12 April 2021

An observed sea fog event over the Eastern Yellow Sea on 15–16 April 2012 was reproduced in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulation with high-resolution to investigate the roles of physical processes and synoptic-scale flows on advectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,893 Views
15 Pages

15 December 2023

The successive tidal force (TF) at the epicenter of the Jiashi M6.6 earthquake in Xinjiang, China, was calculated for the period from 13 December 2019 to 10 February 2020. With periodic changes in tide-generating forces, the variations in the electro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,255 Views
20 Pages

Modification of IPI Method for Extraction of Short-Term and Imminent OLR Anomalies and Case Study of Two Large Earthquakes

  • Maoning Feng,
  • Pan Xiong,
  • Weixi Tian,
  • Yue Liu,
  • Changhui Ju,
  • Cheng Song and
  • Yongxian Zhang

1 December 2024

The Pattern Informatics Method (PI) was initially developed for medium-to-long-term earthquake prediction by analyzing changes in seismic activity. It has since been refined and extended to identify ionospheric anomalies associated with earthquakes....

  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
24,544 Views
27 Pages

30 December 2009

A wide range of satellite methods is applied now in seismology. The first applications of satellite data for earthquake exploration were initiated in the ‘70s, when active faults were mapped on satellite images. It was a pure and simple extrapolation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
739 Views
21 Pages

Improving the Prediction of Land Surface Temperature Using Hyperparameter-Tuned Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Anurag Mishra,
  • Anurag Ohri,
  • Prabhat Kumar Singh,
  • Nikhilesh Singh and
  • Rajnish Kaur Calay

15 November 2025

Land surface temperature (LST) is a critical variable for understanding energy exchanges and water balance at the Earth’s surface, as well as for calculating turbulent heat flux and long-wave radiation at the surface–atmosphere interface....

  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
10,874 Views
20 Pages

24 December 2020

Land surface temperature (LST) plays a critical role in the water cycle and energy balance at global and regional scales. Large-scale LST estimates can be obtained from satellite observations and reanalysis data. In this study, we first investigate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,167 Views
26 Pages

Uvsq-Sat NG, a New CubeSat Pathfinder for Monitoring Earth Outgoing Energy and Greenhouse Gases

  • Mustapha Meftah,
  • Cannelle Clavier,
  • Alain Sarkissian,
  • Alain Hauchecorne,
  • Slimane Bekki,
  • Franck Lefèvre,
  • Patrick Galopeau,
  • Pierre-Richard Dahoo,
  • Andrea Pazmino and
  • Philippe Keckhut
  • + 10 authors

8 October 2023

Climate change is undeniably one of the most pressing and critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. In this context, monitoring the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) is fundamental in conjunction with greenhouse gases (GHGs) in orde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,649 Views
14 Pages

Climatic and Vegetation Response Patterns over South Africa during the 2010/2011 and 2015/2016 Strong ENSO Phases

  • Lerato Shikwambana,
  • Kanya Xongo,
  • Morwapula Mashalane and
  • Paidamwoyo Mhangara

20 February 2023

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a significant climate phenomenon on Earth due to its ability to change the global atmospheric circulation which influences temperature and precipitation across the globe. In this study, we investigate the...