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Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES)The CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) experiment will play a major role in NASA's multi-platform Earth Observing System (EOS) program to observe and study the global climate. The CERES instruments will provide EOS scientists with a consistent data base of accurately known fields of radiation and of clouds. CERES will investigate the important question of cloud forcing and its influence on the radiative energy flow through the Earth's atmosphere. The CERES instrument is an improved version of the ERBE (Earth Radiation Budget Experiment) broadband scanning radiometer flown by NASA from 1984 through 1989. This paper describes the science of CERES, presents an overview of the instrument preliminary design, and outlines the issues related to spacecraft pointing and attitude control.
Document ID
19930066618
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Carman, Stephen L.
(TRW Space and Technology Group Redondo Beach, CA, United States)
Cooper, John E.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Miller, James
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Harrison, Edwin F.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Barkstrom, Bruce R.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: Guidance and control 1992; Proceedings of the 15th Annual AAS Rocky Mountain Conference, Keystone, CO, Feb. 8-12, 1992 (A93-50576 21-18)
Publisher: Univelt, Inc.
Subject Category
Spacecraft Instrumentation
Report/Patent Number
AAS PAPER 92-006
Accession Number
93A50615
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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