scholarly journals Editorial for Special Issue “Earth Radiation Budget”

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 3379
Author(s):  
Steven Dewitte
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Term Monitoring ◽  
Earth Radiation

The Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) at the top of the atmosphere describes how the Earth gains energy from the Sun and loses energy to space through the reflection of solar radiation and the emission of thermal radiation. The ERB is measured from space with dedicated remote sensing instruments. Its long-term monitoring is of fundamental importance for understanding climate change. This Special Issue contains contributions focusing on ERB remote sensing instruments for either (1) the establishment of past and current ERB Climate Data Records (CDRs), (2) insights in climate change gained from the analysis of ERB CDRs, and 3) the outlook for continued or improved future ERB monitoring.

scholarly journals Use of a GCM to explore sampling issues in connection with satellite remote sensing of the Earth radiation budget

2000 ◽  
Vol 105 (D16) ◽  
pp. 20757-20772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura D. Fowler ◽  
Bruce A. Wielicki ◽  
David A. Randall ◽  
Mark D. Branson ◽  
Gary G. Gibson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Earth Radiation

scholarly journals Generation of a Seamless Earth Radiation Budget Climate Data Record: A New Methodology for Placing Overlapping Satellite Instruments on the Same Radiometric Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 2787
Author(s):  
Mohan Shankar ◽  
Wenying Su ◽  
Natividad Manalo-Smith ◽  
Norman G. Loeb
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Response ◽  
Radiant Energy ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Data Record ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Climate Data Record ◽  
Earth Radiation

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments have enabled the generation of a multi-decadal Earth radiation budget (ERB) climate data record (CDR) at the top of the Earth’s atmosphere, within the atmosphere, and at the Earth’s surface. Six CERES instruments have been launched over the course of twenty years, starting in 1999. To seamlessly continue the data record into the future, there is a need to radiometrically scale observations from newly launched instruments to observations from the existing data record. In this work, we describe a methodology to place the CERES Flight Model (FM) 5 instrument on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) spacecraft on the same radiometric scale as the FM3 instrument on the Aqua spacecraft. We determine the required magnitude of radiometric scaling by using spatially and temporally matched observations from these two instruments and describe the process to radiometrically scale SNPP/FM5 to Aqua/FM3 through the instrument spectral response functions. We also present validation results after application of this radiometric scaling and demonstrate the long-term consistency of the SNPP/FM5 record in comparison with the CERES instruments on Aqua and Terra.

Libera and Continuity of the Earth Radiation Budget Climate Data Record

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Pilewskie ◽  
Maria Hakuba ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Radiative Energy ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Data Record ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Climate Data Record ◽  
Earth Radiation

<p>The NASA Libera Mission, named for the daughter of Ceres in Roman mythology, will provide continuity of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Earth radiation budget (ERB) observations from space. Libera’s  attributes enable a seamless extension of the ERB climate data record. Libera will acquire integrated radiance over the CERES FM6-heritage broad spectral bands in the shortwave (0.3 to 5 μm), longwave (5 to 50 μm) and total (0.3 to beyond 100 μm) and adds a split-shortwave band (0.7 to 5 μm) to provide deeper insight into shortwave energy deposition. Libera leverages advanced detector technologies using vertically aligned black-carbon nanotubes with closed-loop electrical substitution radiometry to achieve radiometric uncertainty of approximately 0.2%. Libera will also employ a wide field-of-view camera to provide scene context and explore pathways for separating future ERB missions from complex imagers.</p><p>The Libera science objectives associated with continuity and extension of the ERB data record are to identify and quantify processes responsible for ERB variability on various time scales. Beyond data continuity, Libera’s new and enhanced observational capabilities will advance our understanding of spatiotemporal variations of radiative energy flow in the visible and and near-infrared spectral regions. They will also enable the rapid development of angular distribution models to facilitate near-IR and visible radiance-to-irradiance conversion.</p>

Ground and in-flight calibrations of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment nonscanning radiometers

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Paden ◽  
Dhirendra K. Pandey ◽  
Robert S. Wilson ◽  
Susan Thomas ◽  
Michael A. Gibson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Budget ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Earth Radiation

The impact of cloud inhomogeneities on the Earth radiation budget: the 14 October 1989 I.C.E. convective cloud case study

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 240-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Parol ◽  
J. C. Buriez ◽  
D. Crétel ◽  
Y. Fouquart
Keyword(s):  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Water Content ◽  
Liquid Water ◽  
Convective Cloud ◽  
Liquid Water Content ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Earth Radiation

Abstract. Through their multiple interactions with radiation, clouds have an important impact on the climate. Nonetheless, the simulation of clouds in climate models is still coarse. The present evolution of modeling tends to a more realistic representation of the liquid water content; thus the problem of its subgrid scale distribution is crucial. For a convective cloud field observed during ICE 89, Landsat TM data (resolution: 30m) have been analyzed in order to quantify the respective influences of both the horizontal distribution of liquid water content and cloud shape on the Earth radiation budget. The cloud field was found to be rather well-represented by a stochastic distribution of hemi-ellipsoidal clouds whose horizontal aspect ratio is close to 2 and whose vertical aspect ratio decreases as the cloud cell area increases. For that particular cloud field, neglecting the influence of the cloud shape leads to an over-estimate of the outgoing longwave flux; in the shortwave, it leads to an over-estimate of the reflected flux for high solar elevations but strongly depends on cloud cell orientations for low elevations. On the other hand, neglecting the influence of cloud size distribution leads to systematic over-estimate of their impact on the shortwave radiation whereas the effect is close to zero in the thermal range. The overall effect of the heterogeneities is estimated to be of the order of 10 W m-2 for the conditions of that Landsat picture (solar zenith angle 65°, cloud cover 70%); it might reach 40 W m-2 for an overhead sun and overcast cloud conditions.

History of satellite missions and measurements of the Earth Radiation Budget (1957–1984)

1986 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick B. House ◽  
Arnold Gruber ◽  
Garry E. Hunt ◽  
Ann T. Mecherikunnel
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Budget ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Satellite Missions ◽  
Earth Radiation
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