I. We now know something about radiative transfer of solar (shortwave) and infrared (longwave) radiation.
Let's now explore how radiation is measured and what we can learn from it.
A. Remote
Sensing
B. Satellites
and Instruments
C. Earth's
energy budget
II. What are some of the uses
of satellite data?
III. What are some common satellite
orbits? What are their strengths and weaknesses?
III. What sorts of variables
will be important for studying Earth's
radiation?
IV. Example of the use of satellite data - Earth's Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
A. The instrument - Earth Radiation Budget Scanner - ERBS
B. Figure 6.1 (in text):
Average annual global
energy budget: relative units
(Percentage of 340 W m-2; amount of incoming solar)
C. Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBS, NOAA-10 satellite, 1987)
