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Atmospheric radiation model for water surfaces

An atmospheric correction model was extended to account for various atmospheric radiation components in remotely sensed data. Components such as the atmospheric path radiance which results from singly scattered sky radiation specularly reflected by the water surface are considered. A component which is referred to as the virtual Sun path radiance, i.e. the singly scattered path radiance which results from the solar radiation which is specularly reflected by the water surface is also considered. These atmospheric radiation components are coded into a computer program for the analysis of multispectral remote sensor data over the Great Lakes of the United States. The user must know certain parameters, such as the visibility or spectral optical thickness of the atmosphere and the geometry of the sensor with respect to the Sun and the target elements under investigation.

Turner, R. E.↗

Authentication controversies and impactite petrography of the New Quebec Crater

The literature reports that led to the current acceptance of New Quebec Crater (Chubb Crater) as an authentic impact crater are reviewed, and it is noted that, for reasons that are not entirely clear, a meteoritic origin for the New Quebec Crater achieved wider acceptance at an earlier data than for the Lake Bosumtwi Crater, for which petrographic and chemical evidence is more abundant and compelling. The petrography of two impact melt samples from the New Quebec Crater was investigated, and new evidence is obtained on the degrees of shock metamorphism affecting the accessory minerals such as apatite, sphene, magnetite, and zircon.

Marvin, Ursula B.↗

Eruption Mechanisms for Loki, Io: Inferences Based on Galileo and Groundbased Data

A wealth of data about Loki, the most powerful volcano on Io, has been collected and here, we try to begin synthesis of these data. These data suggest periodic lava lake overturn. Further, these eruptions may be truly periodic, and therefore predictable. Additional information is contained in the original extended abstract.

Rathbun, J. A.↗

Quantitative Mapping of Reflected and Emitted Energy Patterns Over a City

There are major variations in energy flux within and across the region of a large city. These variations have impacts in disparate areas, such as human health, environmental monitoring and mitigation, and energy consumption. Knowledge of the variations also has utility to urban and regional planners, and climate modelers. The authors have developed a system which permits robust measurement of both the magnitude of the energy flux variation and the absolute value of energy flux over regions of the size of large cites. The technique uses properly acquired and processed multispectral imagery with bands in the visible, near-IR and thermal portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. With proper knowledge of the atmosphere and geometries of acquisition it is possible to compute the energy budget for individual pixels. The reality of this technique is demonstrated using data acquired over Salt Lake City, Utah. The deficiencies in the results emphasize the critical nature of various design and engineering features usually ignored in airborne and satellite imaging systems.

Luvall, J.↗

Freight Electrification, Moving Goods While Managing Grid Impacts

Analyzing freight data from the Salt Lake City inland port demonstrates significant potential forintegrating battery-electric freight vehicles (BEVs) into key transportation corridors. Our partnership with freight operators like RSD and MWCS, and other companies moving freight around the port, provided valuable fleet telemetry and operationalinsights, highlighting critical corridors on and around I-15 and I-80.

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AmeriFlux FLUXNET-1F US-UTL UFLUX Pelican Lake

This is the AmeriFlux Management Project (AMP) created FLUXNET-1F version of the carbon flux data for the site US-UTL UFLUX Pelican Lake. This is the FLUXNET version of the carbon flux data for the site US-UTL UFLUX Pelican Lake produced by applying the standard ONEFlux (1F) software. Site Description - This station is on a drip irrigated alflafa field

Menuz, Diane [Utah Geological Survey]↗

AmeriFlux FLUXNET-1F US-PFe NW4 Lake-1 CHEESEHEAD 2019

This is the AmeriFlux Management Project (AMP) created FLUXNET-1F version of the carbon flux data for the site US-PFe NW4 Lake-1 CHEESEHEAD 2019. This is the FLUXNET version of the carbon flux data for the site US-PFe NW4 Lake-1 CHEESEHEAD 2019 produced by applying the standard ONEFlux (1F) software. Site Description - This tower (32m, trailer-based, telescoping) is located in the northwestern quadrant of the 10 x 10km study domain. It is located in a red pine and aspen forest (20.1 m height) on the bank of a lake (500m across).

Desai, Ankur [University of Wisconsin-Madison]↗

BOREAS RS-12 Automated Ground Sunphotometer Measurements in the SSA

The BOREAS RSS-12 team collected both ground and airborne sunphotometer measurements for use in characterizing the aerosol optical properties of the atmosphere during the BOREAS data collection activities. These measurements are to be used to: 1) measure the magnitude and variability of the aerosol optical depth in both time and space; 2) determine the optical properties of the boreal aerosols; and 3) atmospherically correct some remotely sensed data acquired during BOREAS. These data cover selected days and times from May to September 1994 and were taken from one of two ground sites near Candle Lake in the SSA. The data described in this document are from the field sunphotometer data. The data are stored in tabular ASCII files. The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884), or from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).

Hall, Forrest G.↗

AmeriFlux FLUXNET-1F US-RC5 Moses Lake on-farm site

This is the AmeriFlux Management Project (AMP) created FLUXNET-1F version of the carbon flux data for the site US-RC5 Moses Lake on-farm site. This is the FLUXNET version of the carbon flux data for the site US-RC5 Moses Lake on-farm site produced by applying the standard ONEFlux (1F) software. Site Description - The Moses Lake On-farm site operated 2013-2015 as part of a cluster of 5 towers (RC1 to RC5) operated for the Regional Approaches to Climate Change (REACCH) USDA-supported research project. The field was a half-circle irrigated plot with the irrigation pivot located on the edge of the field and the flux tower located next to the center of the pivot. The field was in wheat from tower establishment in June 2013 to harvest in August 2013. A cover crop of arugula and mustard was grown from August to October 2013. Potatoes were grown April to August 2014 and wheat (a spring cultivar planted in fall) was grown October 2014 to June 2015. Soils are coarse sandy loam mollisols in the Timmerman series. The site topography is flat.

Chi, Jinshu [The Hong Kong University of Science a↗

AmeriFlux US-MBP Marcell Bog Lake Peatland

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-MBP Marcell Bog Lake Peatland. Site Description - The study site is a fen within the Marcell Experimental Forest, which has been monitored for fluxes and environmental variables at various points in time. In 2007 an EC tower was established to monitor CO2/H2O fluxes within the peatland. Methane observations were added in 2009 and have been ongoing since. This site has also been referred to as Bog Lake Fen in the past.

Roman, Tyler↗

AmeriFlux FLUXNET-1F US-xDL NEON Dead Lake (DELA)

This is the AmeriFlux Management Project (AMP) created FLUXNET-1F version of the carbon flux data for the site US-xDL NEON Dead Lake (DELA). This is the FLUXNET version of the carbon flux data for the site US-xDL NEON Dead Lake (DELA) produced by applying the standard ONEFlux (1F) software. Site Description - The Dead Lake site is just northeast of Demopolis, AL near the Black Warrior River. The site is in Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) 133A–Southern Coastal Plains, near the boundary of MLRA 135A–Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie. Surrounded by woody wetlands and evergreen forest, DELA sits on the flood plain steps and stream terraces of an inside meander of the Black Warrior River in Greene Co., AL.

Network), NEON (National Ecological Observatory↗

AmeriFlux FLUXNET-1F US-MBP Marcell Bog Lake Peatland

This is the AmeriFlux Management Project (AMP) created FLUXNET-1F version of the carbon flux data for the site US-MBP Marcell Bog Lake Peatland. This is the FLUXNET version of the carbon flux data for the site US-MBP Marcell Bog Lake Peatland produced by applying the standard ONEFlux (1F) software. Site Description - The study site is a fen within the Marcell Experimental Forest, which has been monitored for fluxes and environmental variables at various points in time. In 2007 an EC tower was established to monitor CO2/H2O fluxes within the peatland. Methane observations were added in 2009 and have been ongoing since. This site has also been referred to as Bog Lake Fen in the past.

Roman, Tyler [USDA Forest Service- International P↗

Application of LANDSAT to the surveillance of lake eutrophication in the Great Lakes basin

The author has identified the following significant results. A step-by-step procedure for establishing and monitoring the trophic status of inland lakes with the use of LANDSAT data, surface sampling, laboratory analysis, and aerial observations were demonstrated. The biomass was related to chlorophyll-a concentrations, water clarity, and trophic state. A procedure was developed for using surface sampling, LANDSAT data, and linear regression equations to produce a color-coded image of large lakes showing the distribution and concentrations of water quality parameters, causing eutrophication as well as parameters which indicate its effects. Cover categories readily derived from LANDSAT were those for which loading rates were available and were known to have major effects on the quality and quantity of runoff and lake eutrophication. Urban, barren land, cropland, grassland, forest, wetlands, and water were included.

Rogers, R. H.↗

Analysis of AIS radiometry at Mono Lake, California

Airborne imaging spectrometer (AIS) data were studied to establish absolute instrumental calibration and to provide atmospheric corrections. Good agreement is found between calculated and measured radiances for uniform surface targets (beaches), but simulations of atmospheric properties with LOWTRAN lead to unreasonably low values of atmospheric precipitable water. Absorptions from CO2 are not detected in the AIS data, but are strongly present in the LOWTRAN model. The apparent low contrast of all atmospheric absorption bands leads to a study of contamination from overlapping spectral orders in the AIS data. The suspected contamination is shown unambiguously to be present beyond 1500 nm. The magnitude remains uncertain. Spectral band filling at 1400 nm cannot be accounted for by order mixing because of the 800 nm blocking filter used. Rough corrections for short wavelength mode observations might be possible if an after-the-fact radiometric calibration of the instrument can be developed.

Conel, J. E.↗

Coordinated aircraft and ship surveys for determining impact of river inputs on great lakes waters. Remote sensing results

The remote sensing results of aircraft and ship surveys for determining the impact of river effluents on Great Lakes waters are presented. Aircraft multi-spectral scanner data were acquired throughout the spring and early summer of 1976 at five locations: the West Basin of Lake Erie, Genesee River - Lake Ontario, Menomonee River - Lake Michigan, Grand River - Lake Michigan, and Nemadji River - Lake Superior. Multispectral scanner data and ship surface sample data are correlated resulting in 40 contour plots showing large-scale distributions of parameters such as total suspended solids, turbidity, Secchi depth, nutrients, salts, and dissolved oxygen. The imagery and data analysis are used to determine the transport and dispersion of materials from the river discharges, especially during spring runoff events, and to evaluate the relative effects of river input, resuspension, and shore erosion. Twenty-five LANDSAT satellite images of the study sites are also included in the analysis. Examples of the use of remote sensing data in quantitatively estimating total particulate loading in determining water types, in assessing transport across international boundaries, and in supporting numerical current modeling are included. The importance of coordination of aircraft and ship lake surveys is discussed, including the use of telefacsimile for the transmission of imagery.

Raquet, C. A.↗

Remote sensing of particulate concentrations in water

Determination of residual radiance is essential in remote sensing measurements of suspended solids in the absence of real-time ground-truth data. Some typical background corrections are presented for Lake Superior and the spectral distribution of the residual radiance is determined from three major categories of turbidity in the lake. The results tested with Landsat 2 digital tape data indicate that for large bodies of water general information on atmospheric scattering, water clarity, and optical properties of suspended solids enables one to estimate the concentrations of particulates to within + or - 0.5 mg/liter in the absence of real-time ground-truth data.

Sydor, M.↗