Richard N. Green

TL;DR: These algorithms are a prototype for the system that will produce the scientific data required for studying the role of clouds and radiation in the Earth's climate system, and are fundamental to the ability to understand, detect, and predict global climate change.

TL;DR: The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) as discussed by the authors carries a three-channel scanning radiometer and a set of nadir-looking wide and medium field-of-view instruments for measuring the radiation emitted from earth and the solar radiation reflected from earth.

TL;DR: In this article, a new method for determining unfiltered shortwave (SW), longwave (LW) and window (W) radiances from filtered radiances measured by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite instrument is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) technique was used for cloud identification using coarse-resolution broadband satellite data using simulated satellite observations, and the results suggest that the MLE method is an improvement over a Lambertian earth assumption and the clear/cloud threshold used in the inversion of Nimbus 3 and Nimbus 7 data.

TL;DR: The current effort describes the radiometric performance of the CERES Proto-Flight Model on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission spacecraft over t... as discussed by the authors, which has achieved a long-term repeatability of better than 0.2% for the first 18 months of science data collection.