| Abstract |
The CERES/ARM/GEWEX Experiment (CAGEX) is designed to test, develop, and validate retrievals of the Surface and Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB; the vertical profile of radiative fluxes) through the remaining life cycle of CERES, and to make the resultant dataset available to the scientific community. CAGEX provides a dataset with (1) soundings, aerosols, and satellite-based cloud properties sufficient to calculate fluxes with a radiative transfer model, (2) longwave and shortwave flux profiles calculated by the Fu-Liou model, and (3) ARM measurements that can be used to validate some of the specified inputs and calculated fluxes.
NASA and NOAA
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