John Coleman, J. J. R. Trethowan, Peter Brinson, John Henderson, Clarence Elliott, Richard Buckle, Elizabeth Nicholas, Harold Hobson, Michael Manning, Peter Fleming, J. E. B. Adams, Ian Peebles, James Margach Political Correspondent of The Sunday Times, Sir Charles Webster, Philip Day, Maurice Edelman, Antony Terry, (Dr.) N. I. Spriggs, Rev. G. W. Butter Worth Litt. D., Richard Kellett, Joyce Emerson, Eileen Soper, John Pearson, Henry Brandon, Terence Lyons, John Russell, Jack Cox, James Barlow, Arthur Jenkins, Patrick Campbell, Vivian Jenkins, Aidan Crawley, W. German Course, Robert Targett, H. Lang Jones, Peter Willett, Geoff Whitten, F. A., Robin Marlar, E. F. Russell, A. J. Sturgeon, William Foster, Stella Frank, Cyril Connolly, Sir Miles Thomas, Raymond Mortimer, Marvin Kalb, Ivan Sharpe, Maxwell Boyd, Sir John Rothenstein Director of the Tate Gallery, Bruce Hayden, Evelyn Irons, H. W. Lee, C. P. Read, Nicholas Carroll Diplomatic Correspondent of The Sunday Times, Peter Cranmer, Susan Noel, Roger Mortimer, James Wilson, John Raymond, Ernestine Carter, Alfred Duggan, Roy Jenkins M. P., Ptolemaeus, Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen Coulter, Elizabeth Longford, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Ian Coulter Industrial Correspondent of The Sunday Times, Alan Wykes, Leonard Russell, Bill Sowerbutts, R. L. Hollands, Clifford Williams, R. C. Robertson-Glasgow, Dilys Powell, Mary Dorkenoo, Colin Cowdrey, Richard Hughes, William Rees-Mogg, Felix Aprahamian, Norman Lewis, Arnold Field, Margaret Costa, Kathleen Gibberd The Sunday Times Educational Correspondent, Robert Robinson, Henry Longhurst, Philip Holland, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anthony Dunn, Dr. Tom Margerison, Dr. Alan Bullock Master of St. Catherine's College, Brian Glanville, R. S. Macrae Colonel (Retd.), Margaret Mackie, John Press, Contango, Edwin Denby, John M. McDowell, C. H. O'd. Alexander, George Schwartz, Maurice Wiggin, Atticus, Robert Harling, Lillian Spender, Gordon Ross, Correlli Barnett, Susan Cooper, Kenneth Konstam, William Rees-Mogg The Sunday Times City Editor, Hugh Trevor-Roper,
... Engineers Values Architects Town Planners Surveyors Pipeline Test Goes 8,000 ft. Under the Sea The World around ...
1961 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Jun Wang, Sundar A. Christopher, Jeffrey S. Reid, Hal Maring, D. L. Savoie, B. N. Holben, John M. Livingston, Philip B. Russell, Shi‐Keng Yang,
... 30 days of half‐hourly, high temporal resolution GOES 8 imager data and radiative transfer calculations, dust aerosol ... a dust detection algorithm was developed from the GOES 8 imager data. The degradation of the signal response relative to the prelaunched calibration of the GOES 8 visible channel was 39% in July 2000 and the GOES 8 AOT detection limit was estimated to be 0. ... Sun photometer (SP) sites. The comparison showed that GOES 8 retrieved AOT are in good agreement with the ... and 0.80 for the two sites. The GOES 8 monthly mean 0.67 μm AOT (0.19 ± ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
2003 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Gary P. Ellrod, Rao V. Achutuni, Jaime Daniels, E. M. Prins, James P. Nelson,
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-8 (GOES-8), the first in the GOES I–M series of advanced meteorological satellites was launched in April 1994 and became operational at 75 °W longitude the following year. GOES-8 features numerous improvements over prior GOES platforms such ... and quantitative comparison of the imager data from GOES-8 and GOES-7 shows that imagery from the ... respects. Improvements in resolution and instrument noise on GOES-8 provide sharper, cleaner images that allow easier detection ...
Tópico(s): Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
1998 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
E. M. Prins, J. M. Feltz, W. Paul Menzel, Darold E. Ward,
... launch of the eighth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES‐8) in 1994 introduced an improved capability for diurnal ... throughout the western hemisphere. In South America the GOES‐8 automated biomass burning algorithm (ABBA) and the automated ... used to monitor biomass burning. This paper outlines GOES‐8 ABBA and ASADA development activities and summarizes results ... SCAR‐B) experiment and the 1995 fire season. GOES‐8 ABBA results document the diurnal, spatial, and seasonal ... activity throughout South America. A validation exercise compares GOES‐8 ABBA results with ground truth measurements for two ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
1998 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
G. C. Mayberry, William I. Rose, G. J. Bluth,
... three satellite sensors: Geostationary Observational Environmental Satellite 8 (GOES 8), Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and Total ... Spectrometer (TOMS). The high temporal resolution of the GOES 8 images filled many of the time gaps the ... morphology of the volcanic cloud was reconstructed using GOES 8 data and by determining the heights of air ... to be c . 5%, based on physical and GOES 8 data. TOMS data showed the SO 2 in ... occurred in several other eruptions. A comparison between GOES 8 and AVHRR data showed that AVHRR data retrieved ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
2002 - Zoological Society of London | Geological Society London Memoirs
Patrick Minnis, Louis Nguyen, David R. Doelling, David F. Young, Walter F. Miller, David P. Kratz,
... data from the eighth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8), the fifth Geostationary Meteorological satellite (GMS-5), and ... taken during 1998 and 2000. The VIRS-to-GOES-8 correlations revealed an annual degradation rate for the GOES-8 visible (0.67 μm) channel of ∼7.5% ... from the prelaunch value. The slopes in the GOES-8 visible-channel gain trend lines derived from VIRS ... difference of 3%–4.8% between the VIRS–GOES-8 and ATSR-2–GOES-8 gains is attributed to spectral differences between ATSR- ...
Tópico(s): Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
2002 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
P. Anil Rao, Henry E. Fuelberg,
... temperature (ΔΘe) between 920 and 620 hPa from GOES-8 radiance data. The models are prepared using a ... radiosonde releases from 10 United States cities. Simulated GOES-8 channel brightness temperatures are calculated from these soundings. ... procedure for ΔΘe is then tested on observed GOES-8 data. A new statistical model is formed using the observed GOES-8 brightness temperatures and ΔΘe’s calculated from collocated ... model explains approximately 5% less variance than its GOES-8 counterpart, due to the reduced vertical resolution available ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
1997 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Applied Meteorology
S. A. Christopher, Jianglong Zhang, B. N. Holben, Seungmi Yang,
... Radiometer (AVHRR) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) imager data, smoke aerosol optical thickness ( ) is retrieved ... Robotic Network (AERONET) program. Both the AVHRR and GOES-8 retrieved values are in excellent agreement with the ... w m) provides the best fit between the GOES-8 and AERONET values. The sensitivity of the retrieved ... used to separate smoke from other features from GOES-8 satellite imagery and regional maps of are provided. ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2002 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Remote Sensing
... on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-8 satellite in 1994 offers an opportunity to estimate ... ocean observations. Linear regression coefficients are estimated for GOES-8 by using the sea surface temperatures derived from ... buoy near-surface measurements, this implies that the GOES-8 infrared scanner can be used to estimate sea ... C relative to buoys. Daily composites of hourly GOES-8 sea surface temperatures are used to illustrate the ...
Tópico(s): Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
1997 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
W. Paul Menzel, Frances C. Holt, Timothy J. Schmit, Robert M. Aune, A. Schreiner, Gary S. Wade, Donald G. Gray,
... foreshadowed many of the anticipated improvements from the GOES-8/9 sounders. This article presents some of the ... and adjacent oceans are now possible with the GOES-8/9 sounders. The GOES-8/9 sounders are making significant contributions by depicting ... in operational as well as research forecast models; GOES-8/9 moisture soundings are now being used in ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
1998 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Antonella A. Albuja, Daniel J. Scheeres, R. Cognion, W. H. Ryan, E. V. Ryan,
... satellites. Satellite models are developed to represent the GOES 8 and GOES 10 satellites, both of which are ... orbit (GEO). A simple satellite model for the GOES 8 satellite is used to analyze the short period ... complex model for the rotational dynamics of the GOES 8 and GOES 10 satellites are developed to probe ... model also predicts a novel state for the GOES 8 satellite, namely that it could periodically fall into ...
Tópico(s): Space Satellite Systems and Control
2017 - Elsevier BV | Advances in Space Research
Xiaoyan Zhang, Qingnong Xiao, Patrick J. Fitzpatrick,
... surface winds, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-8 (GOES-8) cloud drift–water vapor winds, and Aqua Moderate ... on the periphery of the hurricane by assimilating GOES-8 satellite-derived upper-level winds. Both track forecasts ... dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR) of QuikSCAT and GOES-8 show improvement compared to those initialized with the ... assimilation experiments that incorporate bogusing vortex, QuikSCAT winds, GOES-8 winds, and Aqua MODIS sounding data were performed. ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2007 - American Meteorological Society | Monthly Weather Review
Kathleen A. Kelly, James F. Hudson, Nickalaus Pinkine,
GOES 8/9 presents a new challenge to the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service's (NESDIS) ... and operating in the independent sounder. Once the GOES 8/9 navigation system was operational, it became apparent ... specification INR performance. This paper will describe the GOES 8/9 INR operation and how it is integrate ...
Tópico(s): Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
1996 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Frederick A. Hanser, Francis B. Sellers,
The GOES-8 solar x-ray sensor (XRS) detects solar x-rays in two wavelength bands of approximately 0.5 ... determine the wavelength response functions. GOES spacecraft before GOES-8 were spinning, and the previous XRS design used ... when the XRS FOV scanned across the sun. GOES-8 and later spacecraft are three-axis stabilized, and ...
Tópico(s): Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
1996 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Louis Nguyen, David R. Doelling, Patrick Minnis, J. Kirk Ayers,
... to calibrate the eighth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) VIS sensor using collocated data with similar viewing zenith, solar zenith, and relative azimuth angles. GOES-8 is then used as a transfer medium to ... launch VIS (~0.65 µm) calibration coefficients for GOES-8, -9, -10, -12, Meteosat-7, -8, and NOAA-14 AVHRR satellites are presented. GOES-8 had a non-linear degradation rate of 11% ...
Tópico(s): Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
2004 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
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Gutemberg Borges França, W.S. Carvalho,
... work shows that the main advantage of the GOES-8 SST algorithm, in comparison with the multi-channel ... the regression show that the accuracy of the GOES-8 SST algorithm is better than 1.0°C ... around 0.5°C. Also, the accuracy of GOES-8 SST is better than 0.7°C using ...
Tópico(s): Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
2004 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Remote Sensing
Jianglong Zhang, Sundar A. Christopher, B. N. Holben,
Using high temporal resolution GOES 8 imager data and radiative transfer calculations, smoke aerosol optical thickness (τ) is retrieved over selected sites in South America and ... The degradation of the signal response in the GOES 8 visible channel is estimated and the satellite‐retrieved ... optical thickness values (τ = 1.5). Although the GOES 8 visible channel has undergone significant degradation in signal ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
2001 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
P. Anil Rao, Henry E. Fuelberg,
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) temperature–moisture retrievals were compared with collocated National Weather Service radiosonde observations (RAOBs) to assess retrieval performance. Retrieved values of temperature ... water and thickness also were evaluated, and the GOES-8 retrievals were compared with the first-guess data ... States at 1200 UTC during August–November 1995. GOES-8 temperature retrievals were found to agree better with ... with the RAOBs as did the first guess. GOES-8 and RAOB-derived precipitable water (PW) and thickness ...
Tópico(s): Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
1998 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Applied Meteorology
J. Turk, J. Vivekanandan, T. Lee, P. A. Durkee, K. Nielsen,
... and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-8 and -9) include full-time 3.9-μm ... out in order to demonstrate the capability of GOES-8 and -9 in both identifying and characterizing the ... technique to extract the near-infrared reflectances from GOES-8 and -9 data. The technique is applicable for ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
1998 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Applied Meteorology
Conor J. Benson, Daniel J. Scheeres, W. H. Ryan, E. V. Ryan, Nicholas Moskovitz,
... in asteroid spin rates and obliquities. The defunct GOES 8 satellite is particularly notable. This satellite's uniform ... curve observations of the five nearly identical defunct GOES 8-12 satellites obtained between 2014 and 2018 are ... tumbling, GOES 10 in fast uniform rotation, and GOES 8 transitioning between both. To better understand this diversity, ... configurations are consistent with the observed evolution of GOES 8 and GOES 10. This provides a plausible explanation ...
Tópico(s): Planetary Science and Exploration
2019 - Elsevier BV | Acta Astronautica
Shelly K. Pope, Francisco P. J. Valero, William D. Collins, Patrick Minnis,
... satellite have been analyzed and compared to satellite (GOES 8), aircraft (Radiation Measurement System, RAMS), and surface (Baseline ... atmosphere in agreement with previous aircraft, surface, and GOES 8 results. The full ScaRaB data set combined with ... average all‐sky absorptance of 0.28. The GOES 8 data set combined with RAMS surface observations gives ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
2002 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Sundar A. Christopher, Jianglong Zhang,
Hourly Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-8 (GOES-8) imager data (1344–1944 UTC) from 20 July–31 August 1998 were used to study the daytime variation of shortwave direct radiative ... ground-based AOT retrieved values. Using the retrieved GOES-8 AOT, a four-stream broadband radiative transfer model ...
Tópico(s): Fire effects on ecosystems
2002 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Н. А. Золотухина, P. N. Mager, D. Yu. Klimushkin,
... 20:25 UT substorm onset with the satellites GOES 8 and 10 located east and west of the ... hodogram of magnetic field oscillations rotated counterclockwise at GOES 8, and clockwise at GOES 10. It is suggested ... in the magnetosphere in the opposite azimuthal directions: GOES 8 (located east of the substorm onset) detected the ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake Detection and Analysis
2008 - Copernicus Publications | Annales Geophysicae
Christopher M. Hayden, Gary S. Wade, Timothy J. Schmit,
... trends in the displayed quantities, which for the GOES-8 are total precipitable water, lifted index, and surface ... the DPI and details the algorithm used for GOES-8. The quality of the products is discussed, and ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
1996 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Applied Meteorology
Warren D. Dunham, Steven A. Macintyre, Charles R. Upton,
The GOES-8 magnetometer is one of the most sophisticated and highest performance fluxgate magnetometers to ge flown in space. ... to 72 degrees C. This paper describes the GOES-8 magnetometer design and performance. The magnetometer consists of ...
Tópico(s): Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
1996 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Francisco P. J. Valero, Patrick Minnis, Shelly K. Pope, Anthony Bucholtz, Brett C. Bush, David R. Doelling, William L. Smith, Xiquan Dong,
... ARESE) using simultaneous measurements from five independent platforms (GOES 8 geostationary satellite, ER‐2, Egrett and Twin Otter ... basis of the observations from these platforms. The GOES 8 albedos agree with the ER 2, Egrett, and ... the aircraft (0.5–13 km), while the GOES 8 albedo versus surface transmittance analysis gives an absorptance ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
2000 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Kenneth R. Knapp, Thomas H. Vonder Haar,
The GOES-8/Imager has provided scientifically valuable imagery since its launch in April of 1994. However, without an onboard ... results of a new calibration effort that compares GOES-8/Imager raw counts of clear ocean scenes to ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
2000 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Christopher S. Velden, Christopher M. Hayden, Steven J. Nieman, W. Paul Menzel, Steven Wanzong, James S. Goerss,
... a new generation of operational geostationary meteorological satellites: GOES-8/9 and GMS-5. The GOES-8/9 water vapor imaging capabilities have increased as ... spatially coherent nature of these vector fields, the GOES-8/9 multispectral water vapor sensing capabilities allow for ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
1997 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Thomas F. Lee, F. Joseph Turk, Kim Richardson,
Using data from the GOES-8–9 imager, this paper discusses the potential for consistent, around-the-clock image products that can trace the movement and ... second case study illustrates the use of the GOES-8 shortwave channel to observe the aftermath of a ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
1997 - American Meteorological Society | Weather and Forecasting
James S. Goerss, Christopher S. Velden, Jeffrey D. Hawkins,
... July and 24 August–10 September 1995) from GOES-8 observations processed at the University of Wisconsin Cooperative ... was run with and without the high-density GOES-8 winds for the two aforementioned time periods. The ...
Tópico(s): Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
1998 - American Meteorological Society | Monthly Weather Review