Synoptic ozone, cloud reflectivity, and erythemal irradiance from sunrise to sunset for the whole earth as viewed by the DSCOVR spacecraft from the earth–sun Lagrange 1 orbit

Herman, Jay; Huang, Liang; McPeters, Richard; Ziemke, Jerry; Cede, Alexander; Blank, Karin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-177-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-177-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-177-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Research article

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11 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 11 Jan 2018

Synoptic ozone, cloud reflectivity, and erythemal irradiance from sunrise to sunset for the whole earth as viewed by the DSCOVR spacecraft from the earth–sun Lagrange 1 orbit

Jay Herman, Liang Huang, Richard McPeters, Jerry Ziemke, Alexander Cede, and Karin Blank

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer #2', Jay Herman, 19 Oct 2017
AC2: 'Updated paper based on Reviewer #2 comments', Jay Herman, 19 Oct 2017
RC2: 'Review of Synoptic Ozone, Cloud reflectivity and Erythermal Irradiance from Sunrise to Sunset for the whole Earth as viewed by the DSCOVR spacecraft from Lagrange-1, by J. Herman et al., submitted to Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2017', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Oct 2017
- AC3: 'Response to reviewer', Jay Herman, 28 Oct 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jay Herman on behalf of the Authors (28 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Nov 2017) by Michel Van Roozendael

AR by Jay Herman on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2017)

Short summary

We launched the DSCOVR spacecraft to an orbit located near the earth–sun gravitational plus centrifugal force balance point known as Lagrange 1. One of the earth-viewing instruments, EPIC, measures earth-reflected radiances in 10 wavelength channels ranging from 317.5 nm to 779.5 nm. We use the UV channels to retrieve O₃ and scene reflectivity, and to derive the first measurement of erythemal flux (sunburn) from sunrise to sunset at the earth's surface.