The Thermal Radiation Group at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has been working closely with scientists and engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center to develop accurate analytical and numerical models ...

The Eppley Precision Spectral Pyranometer (PSP) is a shortwave radiometer that is widely used in global networks to monitor solar irradiances at the earth's surface. Within the instrument, a blackened surface is in intimate ...

The current effort addresses two issues important to the research conducted by the Thermal Radiation Group at Virginia Tech. The first research topic involves the development of a method which can properly model the ...

As the Earth's atmosphere evolves due to human activity, today's modern industrial society relies significantly on the scientific community to foresee possible atmospheric complications such as the celebrated greenhouse ...

The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) is a program sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aimed at evaluating the global energy balance. Current scanning radiometers used ...

The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) and the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) are systems that measure the earth's radiation budget, or the difference between earth-emitted radiation and radiation ...

The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) consists of a suite of three scanning and four nonscanning radiometric instruments on each of three satellites which monitor the solar-reflected and Earth-emitted components of ...

<p>The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) active-cavity radiometers are used to measure the incoming solar, reflected solar, and emitted longwave radiation from the Earth and its atmosphere. The radiometers are carried ...

</p> <p>Discussed is the development of two computer programs for the calculation of cross-sectional areas for existing aircraft and aircraft concepts. The first program allows the user to display aircraft described in ...

<p>Described is a development of a new finite element-method-based numerical technique to carry out the steady-state thermal analysis of a cylindrical electric furnace. Such furnaces are in common use for the continuous ...