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    "Validation of TOA radiative fluxes from the GERB instrument"

    Authors
    Dewitte, S.
    Clerbaux, N.
    Gonzalez, L.
    Ipe, A.
    Bertrand, C.
    Joukoff, A.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB)
    Meteosat Second Generation(MSG)
    GERB
    TOA
    Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES)
    Audience
    General Public
    Scientific
    Date
    2004
    Publisher
    IRM
    KMI
    RMI
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    Description
    The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument on the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite is dedicated to the accurate measurement of the energy fluxes of the reflected solar radiation and of the emitted thermal radiation at the Top Of the Atmosphere (TOA). The error on the TOA fluxes is dominated by the uncertainty on the Angular Dependency Models (ADM’s) that are used to convert the directional GERB radiances into hemispherically integrated fluxes. We validate the emitted thermal GERB TOA fluxes by comparing them with colocated fluxes from the Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments on the polar Terra and Aqua satellites. For a given location on earth and a given time of day, the GERB viewing geometry is fixed, while the CERES viewing geometry is variable. Hence the statistical comparison of GERB and CERES fluxes yields a direct estimation of the GERB TOA flux accuracy.
    Citation
    Dewitte, S.; Clerbaux, N.; Gonzalez, L.; Ipe, A.; Bertrand, C.; Joukoff, A. (2004). "Validation of TOA radiative fluxes from the GERB instrument". , Issue In P.41 Proceedings of the 2004 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 31 May ¿ 4 June 2004, pp. 498-504, IRM,
    Identifiers
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/8221
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Not pertinent
    Language
    eng
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