Geostationary Enhanced Temporal Interpolation for CERES Flux Products

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology - Tập 30 Số 6 - Trang 1072-1090 - 2013
David R. Doelling1, Norman G. Loeb1, D. F. Keyes2, Michele L. Nordeen2, Daniel Morstad2, Cathy Nguyen2, Bruce A. Wielicki1, David F. Young1, Moguo Sun2
1NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
2SSAI, Hampton, Virginia

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Abstract The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments on board the Terra and Aqua spacecraft continue to provide an unprecedented global climate record of the earth’s top-of-atmosphere (TOA) energy budget since March 2000. A critical step in determining accurate daily averaged flux involves estimating the flux between CERES Terra or Aqua overpass times. CERES employs the CERES-only (CO) and the CERES geostationary (CG) temporal interpolation methods. The CO method assumes that the cloud properties at the time of the CERES observation remain constant and that it only accounts for changes in albedo with solar zenith angle and diurnal land heating, by assuming a shape for unresolved changes in the diurnal cycle. The CG method enhances the CERES data by explicitly accounting for changes in cloud and radiation between CERES observation times using 3-hourly imager data from five geostationary (GEO) satellites. To maintain calibration traceability, GEO radiances are calibrated against Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the derived GEO fluxes are normalized to the CERES measurements. While the regional (1° latitude × 1° longitude) monthly-mean difference between the CG and CO methods can exceed 25 W m−2 over marine stratus and land convection, these regional biases nearly cancel in the global mean. The regional monthly CG shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) flux uncertainty is reduced by 20%, whereas the daily uncertainty is reduced by 50% and 20%, respectively, over the CO method, based on comparisons with 15-min Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data.

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Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Tập 30 Số 6

1072-1090

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