Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) experimentThe Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) experiment will play a major role in NASA's planned multi-instrument multi-satellite Earth Observing System (EOS) program to observe and study the total Earth System on a global scale. The CERES experiment will provide EOS with a consistent data base of accurately known fields of radiation and of clouds; and will investigate the important question of the impact of clouds upon the radiative energy flow through the earth-atmosphere system. The CERES instruments will be an improved version of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) broadband scanning radiometer instruments flown by NASA in the 1980s. This paper describes the CERES experiment approach and the current CERES instrument design status.
Document ID
19920045597
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Cooper, John E. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Barkstrom, Bruce R. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Kopia, Leonard P. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)