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Angular sampling of a monochromatic, wide-field-of-view camera to augment next-generation Earth radiation budget satellite observations
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
K. Sebastian Schmidt
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Hong Chen
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Daniel R. Feldman
Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Bruce C. Kindel
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Joshua Mauss
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Mathew van den Heever
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Maria Z. Hakuba
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Peter Pilewskie
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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Short summary
The concept of a satellite-based camera is demonstrated for sampling the angular distribution of outgoing radiance from Earth needed to generate data products for new radiation budget spectral channels.
The concept of a satellite-based camera is demonstrated for sampling the angular distribution of...
