Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES), a review: Past,present and future

The Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) project’s objectives are to measure the reflected solar radiance (shortwave) and Earth-emitted (longwave) radiances and from these measurements to compute the shortwave and longwave radiation fluxes at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and the surface and radiation divergence within the atmosphere. The fluxes at TOA are to be retrieved to an accuracy of 2%. Improved bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) have been developed to compute the fluxes at TOA from the measured radiances with errors reduced from ERBE by a factor of two or more. Instruments aboard the Terra and Aqua spacecraft provide sampling at four local times. In order to further reduce temporal sampling errors, data are used from the geostationary meteorological satellites to account for changes of scenes between observations by the CERES radiometers.     

激光诊断技术在脉冲爆震发动机研究中的应用

在美国海军研究生院及斯坦福大学的脉冲爆震发动机（PDE）模型上，应用两种新发展的二极管激光诊断技术－光吸收／高温辐射组合测定法和多路复合可调二极管激光（TDL）技术，测量了其中的温度、各燃烧产物组分等重要参数，并与传统方法所得结果进行对比，说明新方法可靠、准确，适合爆震燃烧流场这种特殊环境，测量精度更高，而且更加简便、快捷。