Multi-instrument comparison of top-of-atmosphere reflected solar radiation
Multi-instrument comparison of top-of-atmosphere reflected solar radiation
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DOI:
10.1175/jcli4018.1
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发表时间:
2007-02
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4.9
通讯作者:
N. Loeb;B. Wielicki;W. Su;K. Loukachine;Wenbo Sun;T. Wong;K. Priestley;G. Matthews;W. Miller;R. Davies
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N. Loeb;B. Wielicki;W. Su;K. Loukachine;Wenbo Sun;T. Wong;K. Priestley;G. Matthews;W. Miller;R. Davies
Abstract Observations from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR), and Sea-Viewing Wide-Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) between 2000 and 2005 are analyzed in order to determine if these data are meeting climate accuracy goals recently established by the climate community. The focus is primarily on top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflected solar radiances and radiative fluxes. Direct comparisons of nadir radiances from CERES, MODIS, and MISR aboard the Terra satellite reveal that the measurements from these instruments exhibit a year-to-year relative stability of better than 1%, with no systematic change with time. By comparison, the climate requirement for the stability of visible radiometer measurements is 1% decade−1. When tropical ocean monthly anomalies in shortwave (SW) TOA radiative fluxes from CERES on Terra are compared with anomalies in Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) from SeaWiF...