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CERES and the S'COOL ProjectThe first Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument will be launched on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft from a Japanese launch site in November 1997. This instrument is a follow-on to the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) begun in the 1980's. The instrument will measure the radiation budget - incoming and outgoing radiant energy - of the Earth. It will establish a baseline and look for climatic trends. The major feature of interest is clouds, which play a very strong role in regulating our climate. CERES will identify clear and cloudy regions and determine cloud physical and microphysical properties using imager data from a companion instrument. Validation efforts for the remote sensing algorithms will be intensive. As one component of the validation, the S'COOL (Students' Cloud Observations On-Line) project will involve school children from around the globe in making ground truth measurements at the time of a CERES overpass. Their observations will be collected at the NASA Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) and made available over the Internet for educational purposes as well as for use by the CERES Science Team in validation efforts. Pilot testing of the S'COOL project began in January 1997 with two local schools in Southeastern Virginia and one remote site in Montana. This experience is helping guide the development of the S'COOL project. National testing is planned for April 1997, international testing for July 1997, and global testing for October 1997. In 1998, when the CERES instrument is operational, a global observer network should be in place providing useful information to the scientists and learning opportunities to the students.
Document ID
19970027283
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Chambers, Lin H.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Young, David F.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Barkstrom, Bruce R.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Wielicki, Bruce A.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1997
Publication Information
Publication: The Sixth Alumni Conference of the International Space University
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
97N26313
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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