PANGAEA_931677 Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar - sav file Matthews, Grant Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar - sav file 2021-05-19 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931677 Earth Science geoscientificInformation Climate Model Prediction Validation Cloud Radiative Forcing/Feedback (CRF) Earth observation Earth Radiation Budget Solar climate forcing Terra & Aqua NASA Satellites Complete MERBE The Moon & Earth Radiation Budget Experiment unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 88 MBytes application/octet-stream Decadal survey page (2021). USA, https://www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEPS-SSB-15-01/publication/24938 Dessler, A E (2010): A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade. Science, 330(6010), 1523-1527, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1192546 Matthews, Grant (2017): The Moon and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE), 15min recorded AMS talk. https://ams.confex.com/ams/97Annual/videogateway.cgi/id/35776?recordingid=35776&uniqueid=Paper306140 Matthews, Grant (2018): First decadal lunar results from the Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment. Applied Optics, 57(7), 1594, https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.57.001594 Matthews, Grant (2018): Real-Time Determination of Earth Radiation Budget Spectral Signatures for Nonlinear Unfiltering of Results from MERBE. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 57(2), 273-294, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0406.1 Matthews, Grant (2021): Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar incoming radiation (2000-03 to 2014-12) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931778 Matthews, Grant (2021): Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar reflected radiation (2000-03 to 2014-12) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931779 Ramanathan, V; Cess, R D; Harrison, Edwin F; Barkstrom, Bruce R; Ahmad, E; Hartmann, D (1989): Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment. Science, 243(4887), 57-63, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.243.4887.57 Wielicki, Bruce A; Barkstrom, Bruce R; Harrison, Edwin F; Lee III, Robert B; Smith, G Louis; Cooper, John E (1996): Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Earth Observing System Experiment. 853-868, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077%3C0853:CATERE%3E2.0.CO;2 Wielicki, Bruce A; Wong, Takmeng; Loeb, Norman; Minnis, Patrick; Priestley, Kory; Kandel, Robert (2005): Changes in Earth's Albedo Measured by Satellite. Science, 308(5723), 825-825, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1106484 Wielicki, Bruce A; Young, D F; Mlynczak, M G; et al. (2013): Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94(10), 1519-1539, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00149.1 Figure 1: 2000-2015 Sun Power Trend of -0.029%/Decade cannot drive Global Warming (URI: https://download.pangaea.de/reference/108902/attachments/Fig1_4_Matthews.jpg) Figure 2: NASA CERES Ed. 4.1 Earth Albedo Solar Warming Change (URI: https://download.pangaea.de/reference/108903/attachments/Fig2_4_Matthews.jpg) Figure 3: 2000-2015 Changes to solar heating rates per decaade due to changing Earth reflectivity, relative to that of the Moon (URI: https://download.pangaea.de/reference/108905/attachments/Fig3_4_Matthews.jpg) Figure 4: Detectable CRF Trend Size (URI: https://download.pangaea.de/reference/108906/attachments/Fig4_4_Matthews.jpg) Global outgoing Earth Spectra Animation from MERBE (URI: https://download.pangaea.de/reference/108907/attachments/Global_outgoing_Earth_Spectra_Animation_from_MERBE.mp4)

The last two US National Academies on Science Decadal survey reports both stressed the vital need to improve the accuracy of orbital climate measurements. They contained comments such as “the single most critical issue for current climate change observations was their lack of accuracy and low confidence in observing the small climate change signals over long decade timescales”. Existing NASA and European measurements are unable to detect such trends that need to be found, because their instruments degrade on-orbit in ways that till now, could not be tracked and compensated for in their released Earth data (i.e. creating spurious trends). This data is from the Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE). It uses the constant reflectivity of the Moon as a calibration standard to monitor calibration changes for instruments built for the Clouds and The Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES, on NASA Terra and Aqua platforms). The Earth reflected solar irradiance data here dating from 2000, are perhaps the most stable ERB satellite calibration dataset ever produced. It is free for all to download and compare with climate model simulations run since 2000 up to the present day, to give better confidence in their predictions of future climate change. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931677"!

https://ams.confex.com/ams/97Annual/videogateway.cgi/id/35776?recordingid=35776&uniqueid=Paper306140 The Moon and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE), 15min recorded AMS talk https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1106484 Changes in Earth's Albedo Measured by Satellite https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1192546 A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade https://doi.org/10.1126/science.243.4887.57 Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077%3C0853:CATERE%3E2.0.CO;2 Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Earth Observing System Experiment https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00149.1 Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0406.1 Real-Time Determination of Earth Radiation Budget Spectral Signatures for Nonlinear Unfiltering of Results from MERBE https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.57.001594 First decadal lunar results from the Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931778 Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar incoming radiation (2000-03 to 2014-12) https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931779 Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar reflected radiation (2000-03 to 2014-12) https://www.merbeclimate.com/ MERBE https://www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEPS-SSB-15-01/publication/24938 Decadal survey page DIF 9.4 2021-05-19 2026-04-30