TROUBLE SPOTS -- Field colors change constantly, depending on sunlight, clouds and stadium lighting.
The authors collected more than a decade's worth of "top of atmosphere" satellite observations, measuring factors such as how much infrared radiation is escaping from Earth and how much sunlight clouds and snow reflect away.
The interferences (sunlight, clouds) can also be significantly suppressed or filtered out, as shown in Figure 5d and 5f. Figure 5b, 5d and 5f, demonstrates that the image can be enhanced for target extraction (blue) after the background (green) is removed from the original image (orange).
WindLight uses algorithms that imitate the ways in which light is affected by real-world atmospheric factors like dust and moisture, enabling the nuances of sunlight, clouds, water and weather to be accurately simulated in real-time.
There are a range of feedbacks in the climate system, including water vapor, changes in ice-albedo (snow and ice cover affect how much the Earth's surface absorbs or reflects incoming sunlight), clouds, and changes in the Earth's carbon cycle (e.g., the release of carbon from soil).
On some mornings, when the sunlight or cloud formations are just right, I am grateful for it to the point of smugness.
In that kind of quiet, the low shoreline of farms and fields passed by as if in a dream, the constantly changing sunlight or cloud cover brightening and subduing colors in ways hard to appreciate from a motorboat or car.
At this height, at the very tip of the mountain range, the artists have had to think about the curvature of the Earth, and how this will affect sunlight and cloud patterns at the furthest reaches.
In the early morning sunlight, a cloud of dust hovers close to the 6m-high fence that separates Melilla from Morocco.
A standard experiment might look at the planet between the years 1800 and 2100, tweaking the carbon dioxide levels, sunlight, or cloud cover to understand precisely how these variables affect global and local temperatures.
