Establishment of AIRS climate-level radiometric stability using radiance anomaly retrievals of minor gases and sea surface temperature

Strow, L. Larrabee; DeSouza-Machado, Sergio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4619-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4619-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4619-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

Research article

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31 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 31 Aug 2020

Establishment of AIRS climate-level radiometric stability using radiance anomaly retrievals of minor gases and sea surface temperature

L. Larrabee Strow and Sergio DeSouza-Machado

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

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RC1: 'Review of AMT-2019-504', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Larrabee Strow, 29 May 2020
RC2: 'Review of "Establishment of AIRS Climate-Level Radiometric Stability using Radiance Anomaly Retrievals of Minor Gases and SST"', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Mar 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Larrabee Strow, 29 May 2020
RC3: 'Review of amt-2019-504', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Mar 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 3', Larrabee Strow, 29 May 2020

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

AR by Larrabee Strow on behalf of the Authors (05 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Jun 2020) by Thomas Wagner

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (17 Jun 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (29 Jun 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (15 Jul 2020) by Thomas Wagner

AR by Larrabee Strow on behalf of the Authors (20 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The NASA AIRS satellite instrument has measured the infrared emission of the Earth continuously since 2002. If AIRS measurements are stable, these radiances can provide globally consistent multi-decadal trends of important climate variables, including the Earth's surface temperature, and the atmospheric temperature and humidity vs. height. Using the sensitivity of the AIRS radiances to well-known carbon dioxide trends, we show that AIRS is stable to 0.02 K per decade, well below climate trends.