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Climate studies from satellite observations - Special problems in the verification of earth radiation balance, cloud climatology, and related climate experimentsA body of techniques that have been developed and planned for use during the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), and related climate experiments of the 1980's are reviewed. Validation and verification methods must apply for systems of satellites. They include: (1) use of a normalization or intercalibration satellite, (2) special intensive observation areas located over ground-truth sites, and (3) monitoring of sun and earth by several satellites and/or several instruments at the same time. Since each climate application area has a hierarchy of user communities, validation techniques vary from very detailed methods to those that simply assure high relative accuracy in detecting space and time variations for climate studies. It is shown that climate experiments generally require more emphasis on long-term stability and internal consistency of satellite data sets than high absolute accuracy.
Document ID
19830048459
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Vonder Haar, T. H.
(Colorado State University; Colorado, Research Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1982
Publication Information
ISSN: 0273-1177
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
83A29677
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS5-27256
CONTRACT_GRANT: NOAA-NA-81AAD00058
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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