Bruce A. Wielicki

TL;DR: The CERES broadband scanning radiometers are an improved version of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) radiometers as mentioned in this paper, which is an investigation to examine the role of cloud/radiation feedback in the Earth's climate system.

TL;DR: The authors used a global climate model to compare the effectiveness of many climate forcing agents for producing climate change and found that replacing traditional instantaneous and adjusted forcings with an easily computed alternative, Fs, yields a better predictor of climate change, i.e., its efficacies are closer to unity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided a detailed error analysis of TOA fluxes based on the latest generation of Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) gridded monthly mean data products [the monthly TOA/surface averages geostationary (SRBAVG-GEO)] and used an objective constrainment algorithm to adjust reflected solar (SW) and emitted thermal (LW) top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiative fluxes within their range of uncertainty.

TL;DR: CALIPSO as mentioned in this paper is a two-wavelength, polarization-sensitive lidar, along with two passive sensors operating in the visible and thermal infrared spectral regions for long-term atmospheric measurements from Earth's orbit.

TL;DR: The role of clouds in modifying the earth's radiation balance is well recognized as a key uncertainty in predicting any potential future climate change as mentioned in this paper, which is true whether the climate change of interest is caused by changing emissions of greenhouse gases and sulfates, deforestation, ozone depletion, volcanic eruptions, or changes in the solar constant.