HR: 08:15h
AN: A51D-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Temporal Variation of Global Albedo from CERES Measurements between 2000 and 2005
AU: Loeb, N G
EM: n.g.loeb@larc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Wielicki, B A
EM: b.a.wielicki@larc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Rose, F G
EM: f.g.rose@larc.nasa.gov
AF: SSAI, One Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666, United States
AU: Doelling, D R
EM: d.r.doelling@larc.nasa.gov
AF: SSAI, One Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666, United States
AU: * Loukachine, K
EM: k.loukachine@larc.nasa.gov
AF: SSAI, One Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666, United States
AB: The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) experiment provides integrated and consistent cloud/aerosol/surface/radiation climate data records sufficiently accurate for scientific investigations of climate forcing and feedbacks. CERES instruments have been operating continuously from December 1999 to present on the Terra spacecraft and from May 2002 to present on the Aqua spacecraft. To produce the CERES monthly data products, the CERES team merges data from up to 11 instruments on 7 spacecraft all integrated to obtain climate accuracy of top-to-bottom atmosphere radiative fluxes in the shortwave and longwave spectral regions. In addition, CERES also incorporates meteorological data from the 4-D weather assimilation models in order to produce its data products. This presentation provides an overview of the CERES project and shows recent results focusing on temporal variations in the Earth's global albedo and an analysis of uncertainties in CERES TOA albedo estimates.
DE: 0321 Cloud/radiation interaction
DE: 0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly