Consistency of the earth's outgoing radiation based on remotely sensed active cavity radiometric data from the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

Jack Paden; Dhirendra K. Pandey; Robert Benjamin Lee III; William C. Bolden; Robert S. Wilson

doi:10.1117/12.161546

15 November 1993 Consistency of the earth's outgoing radiation based on remotely sensed active cavity radiometric data from the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

Jack Paden, Dhirendra K. Pandey, Robert Benjamin Lee III, William C. Bolden, Robert S. Wilson

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Proceedings Volume 1938, Recent Advances in Sensors, Radiometric Calibration, and Processing of Remotely Sensed Data; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.161546
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

As a part of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) has continuously acquired active-cavity radiometric measurements of the Earth's outgoing radiative flux since October 1984. We have analyzed the daily average of daytime and nighttime total and shortwave flux measurements from the ERBS, at satellite altitude, for the period from January 1985 through December 1991. We found the annual cycle of total and shortwave flux measurements to be highly repeatable. We averaged the ERBS data for the years 1985 through 1989, and used these as a mean for comparison of 1990 and 1991 data. We observed (in daytime) some differences in both the total and shortwave flux regions. Similar trends were not apparent in the derived daytime longwave data (i.e., total- sw). There is evidence of generally increasing outgoing flux (and hence a warming trend) over the years 1985 through 1991.

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Jack Paden, Dhirendra K. Pandey, Robert Benjamin Lee III, William C. Bolden, and Robert S. Wilson "Consistency of the earth's outgoing radiation based on remotely sensed active cavity radiometric data from the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite", Proc. SPIE 1938, Recent Advances in Sensors, Radiometric Calibration, and Processing of Remotely Sensed Data, (15 November 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.161546

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