Extrapolation of Earth-Based Solar Irradiance Measurements to Exoatmospheric Levels for Broad-Band and Selected Absorption-Band Observations

John A. Reagan; Peter A. Pilewskie; Ian C. Scott-Fleming; Benjamin M. Herman; Avishai Ben-David

doi:10.1109/TGRS.1987.289733

Extrapolation of Earth-Based Solar Irradiance Measurements to Exoatmospheric Levels for Broad-Band and Selected Absorption-Band Observations

John A. Reagan, Peter A. Pilewskie, Ian C. Scott-Fleming, Benjamin M. Herman, Avishai Ben-David

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This paper describes techniques and presents results for extrapolating earth-based spectral-band measurements of directly transmitted solar irradiance to equivalent exoatmospheric signal gain settings of the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) sunsensor system being developed for the NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and for the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas (SAGE) II instrument launched in October 1984, on the NASA Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS). A band transmittance approach was employed for the HALOE sunsensor, which has a broad-band channel determined by the spectral responsivity of a silicon detector. A modified Langley plot approach, assuming a square-root law behavior for the water-vapor transmittance, was used for the SAGE II 940-nm water-vapor channel.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	647-653
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume	GE-25
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.1987.289733
State	Published - Nov 1987

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Exoatmospheric
Langley plot
solar radiometer
solar spectral irradiance

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Extrapolation of Earth-Based Solar Irradiance Measurements to Exoatmospheric Levels for Broad-Band and Selected Absorption-Band Observations. / Reagan, John A.; Pilewskie, Peter A.; Scott-Fleming, Ian C. et al.
In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. GE-25, No. 6, 11.1987, p. 647-653.

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