A new airborne broadband radiometer system and an efficient method to correct dynamic thermal offsets

Ehrlich, André; Zöger, Martin; Giez, Andreas; Nenakhov, Vladyslav; Mallaun, Christian; Maser, Rolf; Röschenthaler, Timo; Luebke, Anna E.; Wolf, Kevin; Stevens, Bjorn; Wendisch, Manfred

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1563-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1563-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1563-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

Research article

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27 Mar 2023

Research article |

| 27 Mar 2023

A new airborne broadband radiometer system and an efficient method to correct dynamic thermal offsets

André Ehrlich, Martin Zöger, Andreas Giez, Vladyslav Nenakhov, Christian Mallaun, Rolf Maser, Timo Röschenthaler, Anna E. Luebke, Kevin Wolf, Bjorn Stevens, and Manfred Wendisch

Data sets

Broadband solar and terrestrial, upward and downward irradiance measured by BACARDI on HALO during the EUREC4A Field Campaign A. Ehrlich, K. Wolf, A. Luebke, M. Zoeger, and A. Giez https://doi.org/10.25326/160

Short summary

Measurements of the broadband radiative energy budget from aircraft are needed to study the effect of clouds, aerosol particles, and surface conditions on the Earth's energy budget. However, the moving aircraft introduces challenges to the instrument performance and post-processing of the data. This study introduces a new radiometer package, outlines a greatly simplifying method to correct thermal offsets, and provides exemplary measurements of solar and thermal–infrared irradiance.