My finding of negative SW feedback of around 5 W m - 2 K - 1 from real
radiation budget data (the CERES instrument on Aqua) is apparently inadmissible as evidence.»
Forster and Gregory (2006) estimate ECS based on
radiation budget data from the ERBE combined with surface temperature observations based on a regression approach, using the observation that there was little change in aerosol forcing over that time.
Not exact matches
These year - to - year differences, which are due to differences in quality control and
data used, are small and now approaching the accuracies required to close the Earth's
radiation budget (e.g., Carton et al., 2005).
Reliable
data on decadal variability of the Earth's
radiation budget are hard to come by, but to provide some reality check I based my setting of the scaling factor between radiative forcing and the SOI / PDOI index on the tropical
data of Wielecki et al 2002 (as corrected in response to Trenberth's criticism here.)
Angular corrections to satellite
data for estimating Earth
radiation budget.
These year - to - year differences, which are due to differences in quality control and
data used, are small and now approaching the accuracies required to close the Earth's
radiation budget (e.g., Carton et al., 2005).
The GCM calculations of the
radiation budget are indeed consistent with measured
data.
Since then, satellite reading of temperatures and the occlusion of numerous infrared bands, ground based, aircraft and balloon measurements of same, and an ever - increasing
data base of the optical properties of CO2 (and other gases, like water vapour), have helped refine
radiation calculations towards determining the atmospheric heat
budget.
However, my task has been to use the K - T energy
budget without questioning the
data except the back
radiation bit.
The cloud radiative effect (CRE) on the Earth's present - day
radiation budget can be inferred from satellite
data by comparing upwelling
radiation in cloudy and non-cloudy regions.
His research has been closely aligned with the development of increasingly sophisticated satellite platform measurements, such as the terrestrial
radiation budget, ozone and weather - related
data, and the need for increasingly sophisticated atmospheric models to assess and evaluate the information content and utility of these measurements.
This study uses satellite
radiation budget measurements along with satellite microwave sea ice
data to document the Arctic - wide decrease in planetary albedo and its amplifying effect on the warming.