Demonstrating the error budget for the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory through solar irradiance measurements

Kurtis Thome; Joel McCorkel; Brendan McAndrew

doi:10.1117/12.2188849

8 September 2015 Demonstrating the error budget for the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory through solar irradiance measurements

Kurtis Thome, Joel McCorkel, Brendan McAndrew

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Proceedings Volume 9607, Earth Observing Systems XX; 96071C (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188849
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) mission addresses the need to observe highaccuracy, long-term climate change trends and to use decadal change observations as a method to determine the accuracy of climate change. A CLARREO objective is to improve the accuracy of SI-traceable, absolute calibration at infrared and reflected solar wavelengths to reach on-orbit accuracies required to allow climate change observations to survive data gaps and observe climate change at the limit of natural variability. Such an effort will also demonstrate National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) approaches for use in future spaceborne instruments. The current work describes the results of laboratory and field measurements with the Solar, Lunar for Absolute Reflectance Imaging Spectroradiometer (SOLARIS) which is the calibration demonstration system (CDS) for the reflected solar portion of CLARREO. SOLARIS allows testing and evaluation of calibration approaches, alternate design and/or implementation approaches and components for the CLARREO mission. SOLARIS also provides a testbed for detector technologies, non-linearity determination and uncertainties, and application of future technology developments and suggested spacecraft instrument design modifications. Results of laboratory calibration measurements are provided to demonstrate key assumptions about instrument behavior that are needed to achieve CLARREO’s climate measurement requirements. Absolute radiometric response is determined using laser-based calibration sources and applied to direct solar views for comparison with accepted solar irradiance models to demonstrate accuracy values giving confidence in the error budget for the CLARREO reflectance retrieval.

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Kurtis Thome, Joel McCorkel, and Brendan McAndrew "Demonstrating the error budget for the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory through solar irradiance measurements", Proc. SPIE 9607, Earth Observing Systems XX, 96071C (8 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188849

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