Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit

The Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) mission will provide a calibration laboratory in orbit for the purpose of accurately measuring and attributing climate change. CLARREO measurements establish new climate change benchmarks with high absolute radiometric accuracy and high statistical confidence across a wide range of essential climate variables. CLARREO's inherently high absolute accuracy will be verified and traceable on orbit to Systeme Internationale (SI) units. The benchmarks established by CLARREO will be critical for assessing changes in the Earth system and climate model predictive capabilities for decades into the future as society works to meet the challenge of optimizing strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change. The CLARREO benchmarks are derived from measurements of the Earth's thermal infrared spectrum (5–50 μm), the spectrum of solar radiation reflected by the Earth and its atmosphere (320–2300 nm), and radio occultation refractivity from which...

Nipa Phojanamongkolkij | Xiaoxiong Xiong | David R. Doelling | William L. Smith | Nigel P. Fox | Bruce A. Wielicki | Robert O. Knuteson | James J. Butler | Joseph P. Rice | Carlos M. Roithmayr | Henry E. Revercomb | John Andrew Dykema | Robert E. Holz | Martin G. Mlynczak | Fred A. Best | David C. Tobin | Anthony J. Mannucci | Chi O. Ao | Peter Pilewskie | Greg Kopp | James M. Corliss | Eric L. Shirley | Kevin W. Bowman | Stephen P. Sandford | David F. Young | Kenneth W. Jucks | Constantine Lukashin | David P. Kratz | Seima Kato | Patrick C. Taylor | William D. Collins | Stephen S. Leroy | Zhonghai Jin | Richard J. Bantges | Paul W. Speth | X. Liu | Brian J. Soden | D. F. Young | Xianglei Huang | Daniel Bernard Kirk-Davidoff | K. Thome | Daniel R. Feldman | Yi Huang | W. Collins | P. Pilewskie | J. Butler | K. Bowman | V. Ramaswamy | J. Dykema | A. Mannucci | K. Jucks | M. Mlynczak | G. Kopp | B. Soden | B. Wielicki | H. Revercomb | D. Tobin | F. Rose | J. Rice | K. Thome | X. Xiong | C. Ao | N. Fox | S. Kato | X. Liu | Xianglei Huang | D. Kratz | Wenbo Sun | H. Brindley | James G. Anderson | D. Kirk-Davidoff | E. Shirley | R. Holz | R. Bantges | R. Knuteson | P. Taylor | Zhonghai Jin | D. Doelling | D. Feldman | Y. Roberts | C. Roithmayr | C. Lukashin | P. Speth | N. Phojanamongkolkij | S. Leroy | J. Corliss | F. Best | Yi Huang | D. Jennings | David G. Johnson | S. Kato | S. Sandford | James G. Anderson | Venkatachalam Ramaswamy | Helen E. Brindley | E. L. Shirley | Wenbo Sun | Yolanda Roberts | D. Jennings | F. G. Rose | J. Butler | W. Smith | James G. Anderson | James G. Anderson | D. Young

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