Radiation budget measurements for the eighties and nineties
- NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA (United States)
The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) consisted of a scanning radiometer and non-scanning radiometers on each of three spacecraft. These instruments began flying in October 1984. The nonscanning radiometers continue to operate, providing broadband radiation measurements of the Earth's outgoing longwave radiation and reflected solar radiation, in addition to measurements of the solar output. The Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) features a scanning radiometer, which is an improved version of the ERBE scanning radiometer, and will fly on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission and Earth Observation System platforms in the late nineties. The CERES project will provide not only radiant fluxes at the top of the atmosphere' (TOA), but also at the surface and will compute radiant flux divergence through the atmosphere.
- Research Organization:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, VA (United States). Langley Research Center
- OSTI ID:
- 6775548
- Journal Information:
- Advances in Space Research; (United States), Vol. 14:1; ISSN 0273-1177
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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