Shortwave Radiance to Irradiance Conversion for Earth Radiation Budget Satellite Observations: A Review

Advances in Earth Radiation Budget Observations from Ceres Terra

The goal of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) project is to provide a long-term record of radiation budget at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA), within the atmosphere, and at the surface with consistent cloud and aerosol properties at climate accuracy [1]. CERES consists of an integrated instrument-algorithm-validation science team that provides development of higher-level prod...

Global distribution of Earth’s surface shortwave radiation budget

The monthly mean shortwave (SW) radiation budget at the Earth’s surface (SRB) was computed on 2.5degree longitude-latitude resolution for the 17-year period from 1984 to 2000, using a radiative transfer model accounting for the key physical parameters that determine the surface SRB, and long-term climatological data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCPD2). The model...

The Effect of a Nonuniform Planetary Albedo on the Interpretation of Earth Radiation Budget Observations

The flux density measured at satellite altitude with a fixed field of view radiometer differs from the true flux density reflected by the earth-atmosphere system within the field of view of the radiometer. This difference is due to angular response characteristics ofthe radiometer, solid angle effects due to geometry, and angular reflectance effects of the earth-atmosphere system. All of these ...

A Satellite Constellation to Observe the Spectral Radiance Shell of Earth

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

Collocated in time and space, top-of-the-atmosphere measurements of the Earth radiation budget (ERB) and cloudiness from passive scanning radiometers, and lidarand radar-in-space measurements of multilayered cloud systems, are the required combination to improve our understanding of the role of clouds and radiation in climate. Experiments to fly multiple satellites "in formation" to measure sim...