Inter-Calibration of nine UV sensing instruments over Antarctica and Greenland since 1980
Nadir viewed intensities (radiances) from nine UV sensing satellite instruments are calibrated over the East Antarctic Plateau and Greenland during summer. The calibrated radiances from these UV instruments ultimately will provide a global long-term record of cloud trends and cloud response from ENS...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:amtd82922 2023-05-15T13:55:28+02:00 Inter-Calibration of nine UV sensing instruments over Antarctica and Greenland since 1980 Weaver, Clark Bhartia, Pawan K. Wu, Dong L. Labow, Gordon Haffner, David 2020-02-20 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2020-7 https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2020-7/ eng eng doi:10.5194/amt-2020-7 https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2020-7/ eISSN: 1867-8548 Text 2020 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2020-7 2020-07-20T16:22:25Z Nadir viewed intensities (radiances) from nine UV sensing satellite instruments are calibrated over the East Antarctic Plateau and Greenland during summer. The calibrated radiances from these UV instruments ultimately will provide a global long-term record of cloud trends and cloud response from ENSO events since 1980. We first remove the strong solar zenith angle dependence from the intensities using an empirical approach rather than a radiative transfer model. Then small multiplicative adjustments are made to these solar zenith angle normalized intensities in order to minimize differences when two or more instruments temporally overlap. While the calibrated intensities show negligible long-term trend over Antarctica, and a statistically insignificant UV albedo trend of −0.05 % per decade over the interior of Greenland, there are small episodic reductions in intensities which are often seen by multiple instruments. Three of these darkening events are explained by boreal forest fires using trajectory modeling analysis. Other events are caused by surface melting or volcanoes. We estimate a 2-sigma uncertainty of 0.35 % for the calibrated radiances. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Greenland Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Antarctic Greenland |
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Nadir viewed intensities (radiances) from nine UV sensing satellite instruments are calibrated over the East Antarctic Plateau and Greenland during summer. The calibrated radiances from these UV instruments ultimately will provide a global long-term record of cloud trends and cloud response from ENSO events since 1980. We first remove the strong solar zenith angle dependence from the intensities using an empirical approach rather than a radiative transfer model. Then small multiplicative adjustments are made to these solar zenith angle normalized intensities in order to minimize differences when two or more instruments temporally overlap. While the calibrated intensities show negligible long-term trend over Antarctica, and a statistically insignificant UV albedo trend of −0.05 % per decade over the interior of Greenland, there are small episodic reductions in intensities which are often seen by multiple instruments. Three of these darkening events are explained by boreal forest fires using trajectory modeling analysis. Other events are caused by surface melting or volcanoes. We estimate a 2-sigma uncertainty of 0.35 % for the calibrated radiances. |
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Inter-Calibration of nine UV sensing instruments over Antarctica and Greenland since 1980 |
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Inter-Calibration of nine UV sensing instruments over Antarctica and Greenland since 1980 |
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Inter-Calibration of nine UV sensing instruments over Antarctica and Greenland since 1980 |
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Inter-Calibration of nine UV sensing instruments over Antarctica and Greenland since 1980 |
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Inter-Calibration of nine UV sensing instruments over Antarctica and Greenland since 1980 |
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inter-calibration of nine uv sensing instruments over antarctica and greenland since 1980 |
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