What does TOA stand for?

Top of the Atmosphere

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The EarthCARE mission aims to improve the understanding of the Earth's radiation balance and to minimize uncertainties in climate change prediction models by acquiring accurate vertical profiles of clouds and aerosols, as well as measurements of top of the atmosphere radiance.

United Kingdom: SSTL wins satellite imager contract for climate ...

Prof Grande said: "This is a dynamic region where the 'solar wind' of charged particles from the Sun interacts with the top of the atmosphere.

WALES: Venus is hot stuff; Welsh scientist studying data from distant ...

These models treat the coupled air-ocean environment as a totally integrated system from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean, placing special emphasis on the air-ocean interface.

U.S. NAVY SELECTS SGI SUPERCOMPUTERS FOR WEATHER FORECASTING

The strategy adopted by the SHEBA team was to mark out a roughly cylindrical column with a radius of 48 kilometres, extending from the upper ocean through the ice-covered surface and on up through the clouds to the top of the atmosphere.

Frozen in the Arctic for a Year - Arctic Mission Members Now ...

Orbiting above the top of the atmosphere, its sensors measure incoming solar short-wave radiation, short-wave radiation reflected off cloud tops and long-wave radiation coming from Earth.

Clouds clearing from climate predictions

The high resolution TOMS instrument will measure "total columnar ozone," the amount of ozone found in a "column" of air extending from the Earth's surface to the top of the atmosphere.

TRW-BUILT OZONE-MAPPING SATELLITE SET FOR JUNE LAUNCH

When an ordinary cosmic ray, whichcan be a gamma ray, a proton or an atomic nucleus, strikes the top of the atmosphere, it initiates a shower of particles, some knocked out of the atoms of the air, some created in the collision.

Marvelous mystery cosmic radiation

Much of it is broken down into hydrogen and oxygen by ultraviolet radiation from the sun, with the hydrogen atoms escaping into space from the top of the atmosphere, or exosphere.

Spots in the air: a comet controversy