Top of atmosphere thermal flux retrieval for the EarthCARE Mission: a preview

Carlos Domenech; Tobias Wehr; Kotska Wallace

doi:10.1117/12.829465

29 September 2009 Top of atmosphere thermal flux retrieval for the EarthCARE Mission: a preview

Carlos Domenech, Tobias Wehr, Kotska Wallace

Proceedings Volume 7475, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XIV; 74750D (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.829465
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2009, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

The forthcoming ESA/JAXA EarthCARE (Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer)Mission addresses the need to improve the understanding of the interactions between cloud, aerosol and radiation processes. These play a critical role in the Earth's radiative balance in climate models. The broad-band radiometer (BBR) on-board the EarthCARE spacecraft provides measurements of broad-band reflected solar and emitted thermal radiances and fluxes at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) over the along-track (AT) satellite path at three different viewing angles. This angular information together with the spectral information on the radiation from the EarthCARE's multi-spectral imager (MSI) is exploited to construct accurate radiance-to-flux conversion algorithms.

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Carlos Domenech, Tobias Wehr, and Kotska Wallace "Top of atmosphere thermal flux retrieval for the EarthCARE Mission: a preview", Proc. SPIE 7475, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XIV, 74750D (29 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.829465

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