On the Lessons Learned From the Operations of the ERBE Nonscanner Instrument in Space and the Production of the Nonscanner TOA Radiation Budget Data Set
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Greg Kopp; Seiji Kato; Alok K. Shrestha; G. Louis Smith; Norman G. Loeb; Takmeng Wong
- Source
- IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens
- Subject
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
Satellite broadcasting
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Article
Data set
Atmospheric measurements
Radiation budget
Net radiation
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Production (economics)
Environmental science
Satellite
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Remote sensing
- Language
- ISSN
- 1558-0644
0196-2892
Monitoring the flow of radiative energy at top-of-atmosphere (TOA) is essential for understanding the Earth’s climate and how it is changing with time. The determination of TOA global net radiation budget using broadband nonscanner instruments has received renewed interest recently due to advances in both instrument technology and the availability of small satellite platforms. The use of such instruments for monitoring Earth’s radiation budget was attempted in the past from satellite missions such as the Nimbus 7 and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE). This paper discusses the important lessons learned from the operation of the ERBE nonscanner instrument and the production of the ERBE nonscanner TOA radiation budget data set that have direct relevance to current nonscanner instrument efforts.