Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change

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Print Version (103530 bytes) EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 88, NO. 11, doi:10.1029/2007EO110015, 2007 Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change George Ohring NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Camp Springs, Md., USA Joe Tansock Utah State University, Logan, USA William Emery University of Colorado, Boulder, USA James Butler NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA Lawrence Flynn NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Camp Springs, Md., USA Fuzhong Weng NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Camp Springs, Md., USA Karen St. Germain National Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, Md., USA Bruce Wielicki NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., USA Changyong Cao NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Camp Springs, Md., USA Mitchell Goldberg NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Camp Springs, Md., USA Jack Xiong NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA Gerald Fraser NIST, Gaithersburg, Md., USA David Kunkee Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, Md., USA David Winker NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., USA Laury Miller NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Camp Springs, Md., USA Stephen Ungar NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA David Tobin University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA James G. Anderson Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA David Pollock University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA Scott Shipley Raytheon, Lanham, Md., USA Alan Thurgood Utah State University, Logan, USA Greg Kopp University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Philip Ardanuy Raytheon, Lanham, Md., USA Tom Stone U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz., USA Abstract Workshop on Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change (ASIC3), Lansdowne, Va., 16–18 May 2006 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. Published 13 March 2007. Index Terms: 9815 General or Miscellaneous: Notices and announcements. Print Version (103530 bytes) Citation: Ohring, G., et al. (2007), Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(11), doi:10.1029/2007EO110015. Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union.

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