Grant Matthews
Matthews
Grant
Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Ed1.1 Solar reflected radiation (2000-03 to 2014-12)
PANGAEA
Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
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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. […]
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. This is a slight update to a previous version https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931779 with improved calibration
Decadal survey page
USA
webpage
A E Dessler
Dessler
A E
A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade
Science
journal article
The Moon and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE), 15min recorded AMS talk
other
First decadal lunar results from the Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
Applied Optics
Real-Time Determination of Earth Radiation Budget Spectral Signatures for Nonlinear Unfiltering of Results from MERBE
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar - sav file
Moon and Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE) EBAF-like Solar incoming radiation (2000-03 to 2014-12)
V Ramanathan
Ramanathan
R D Cess
Cess
R D
Edwin F Harrison
Harrison
Edwin F
Bruce R Barkstrom
Barkstrom
Bruce R
E Ahmad
Ahmad
D Hartmann
Hartmann
Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
Bruce A Wielicki
Wielicki
Bruce A
Robert B Lee III
Lee III
Robert B
G Louis Smith
Smith
G Louis
John E Cooper
Cooper
John E
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Earth Observing System Experiment
Takmeng Wong
Wong
Takmeng
Norman Loeb
Loeb
Norman
Patrick Minnis
Minnis
Patrick
Kory Priestley
Priestley
Kory
Robert Kandel
Kandel
Robert
Changes in Earth's Albedo Measured by Satellite
D F Young
Young
D F
M G Mlynczak
Mlynczak
M G
et al.
Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Figure 1: 2000-2015 Sun Power Trend of -0.029%/Decade cannot drive Global Warming
Figure 2: NASA CERES Ed. 4.1 Earth Albedo Solar Warming Change
Figure 3: 2000-2015 Changes to solar heating rates per decaade due to changing Earth reflectivity, relative to that of the Moon
Figure 4: Detectable CRF Trend Size
Global outgoing Earth Spectra Animation from MERBE
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