Accurate radiometry from space: An essential tool for climate studies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1953, 2011, Pages 4028-4063

  Fox, Nigel ^a   Kaiser Weiss, Andrea ^b   Schmutz, Werner ^c   Thome, Kurtis ^d   Young, Dave ^e   Wielicki, Bruce ^e   Winkler, Rainer ^a   Woolliams, Emma ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Earth observation; Radiometry; Satellites; Solar irradiance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); METRIC SYSTEM; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SOLAR RADIATION;

CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS; CLIMATE STUDIES; DIRECT USE; EARTH OBSERVATION; EARTH'S CLIMATE; FORECASTING ABILITY; HIGH-ACCURACY; IN-ORBIT; NATIONAL METROLOGY INSTITUTES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NEW SATELLITES; PRIMARY STANDARDS; REFLECTIVE DOMAIN; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; STATE OF THE ART; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 80055076604     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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