Achieving satellite instrument calibration for climate change Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • For the most part, satellite observations of climate are not presently sufficiently accurate to establish a climate record that is indisputable and hence capable of determining whether and at what rate the climate is changing. Furthermore, they are insufficient for establishing a baseline for testing long‐term trend predictions of climate models. Satellite observations do provide a clear picture of the relatively large signals associated with interannual climate variations such as El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and they have also been used to diagnose gross inadequacies of climate models, such as their cloud generation schemes. However, satellite contributions to measuring long‐term change have been limited and, at times, controversial, as in the case of differing atmospheric temperature trends derived from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) microwave radiometers.

publication date

  • March 13, 2007

has restriction

  • bronze

Date in CU Experts

  • November 22, 2013 1:35 AM

Full Author List

  • Ohring G; Tansock J; Emery W; Butler J; Flynn L; Weng F; Germain KS; Wielicki B; Cao C; Goldberg M

author count

  • 24

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0096-3941

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 2324-9250

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 136

end page

  • 136

volume

  • 88

issue

  • 11