Validation and analysis of Earth Radiation Budget active-cavity radiometric data (1985-1999)

Jack Paden; G. Louis Smith; Robert Benjamin Lee III; Kory J. Priestley; Dhirendra K. Pandey; Robert S. Wilson

doi:10.1117/12.413852

31 January 2001 Validation and analysis of Earth Radiation Budget active-cavity radiometric data (1985-1999)

Jack Paden, G. Louis Smith, Robert Benjamin Lee III, Kory J. Priestley, Dhirendra K. Pandey, Robert S. Wilson

Proceedings Volume 4168, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere V; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413852
Event: Europto Remote Sensing, 2000, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

On 5 October 1984, the US' first woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride, inserted the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) into a 57 degree inclined orbit using the shuttles remote manipulator arm. The orbital precession period of the satellite was 72 days. The nonscanner instrument aboard the ERBS has acquired earth-emitted and reflected radiant flux data since that time, having exceeded its designed lifetime of three years by a factor of five. During these 15 years, the ERBS nonscanner has become a de-facto standard to which much remotely sensed radiative flux data is compared. This paper compares the fifteen year history of the ERBS wide and medium field-of-view non-scanner detectors with the solar irradiance data acquired by the co-located ERBS solar monitor and with the National Climatic Data Center's earth- surface temperature dataset for the same period.

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Jack Paden, G. Louis Smith, Robert Benjamin Lee III, Kory J. Priestley, Dhirendra K. Pandey, and Robert S. Wilson "Validation and analysis of Earth Radiation Budget active-cavity radiometric data (1985-1999)", Proc. SPIE 4168, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere V, (31 January 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413852

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