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Establishment of AIRS climate-level radiometric stability using radiance anomaly retrievals of minor gases and sea surface temperature
Department of Physics and JCET, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
Sergio DeSouza-Machado
Department of Physics and JCET, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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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.
The NASA AIRS satellite instrument has measured the infrared emission of the Earth continuously...