Category: Expertise: Observing Systems

Meteorological satellites operating in geostationary orbits around the Earth (Fig. 1) provide us with observations of the Earth’s surface and clouds since the early 1970’s.…

The best precipitation dataset in current production in the US provides data every one to three hours, on a scale of roughly 4 km (one…

The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) is a network of climate-monitoring stations maintained and operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide…

Policy makers rely on climate observations and model predictions that inherently contain uncertainties. Accurate characterization of these uncertainties is necessary to make well-informed decisions. Observations…

Surface albedo is the fraction of incoming solar radiation reflected by the land surface, and therefore is a sensitive indicator of environmental changes. Its value…