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06 Sep 2022
Research article |
| 06 Sep 2022
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Top-of-the-atmosphere reflected shortwave radiative fluxes from GOES-R
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Yingtao Ma
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Wen Chen
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Istvan Laszlo
NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College
Park, MD, USA
Hongqing Liu
I.M. Systems Group, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
Hye-Yun Kim
I.M. Systems Group, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
Jaime Daniels
NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College
Park, MD, USA
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Short summary
Scene-dependent narrow-to-broadband transformations are developed to facilitate the use of observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), the primary instrument on GOES-R, to derive surface shortwave radiative fluxes. This is a first NOAA product at the high resolution of about 5 k over the contiguous United States (CONUS) region. The product is archived and can be downloaded from the NOAA Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS).
Scene-dependent narrow-to-broadband transformations are developed to facilitate the use of...
