Applying metrological techniques to satellite fundamental climate data records

Woolliams, E. R., Mittaz, J. P. D., Merchant, C. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-9850, Hunt, S. E. and Harris, P. M. (2018) Applying metrological techniques to satellite fundamental climate data records. In: 13th International Conference on New Developments and Applications in Optical Radiometry, 13–16 June 2017, Tokyo, Japan. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/972/1/012003 (Journal of Physics: Conference Series 972)

Abstract/Summary

Quantifying long-term environmental variability, including climatic trends, requires decadal-scale time series of observations. The reliability of such trend analysis depends on the long-term stability of the data record, and understanding the sources of uncertainty in historic, current and future sensors. We give a brief overview on how metrological techniques can be applied to historical satellite data sets. In particular we discuss the implications of error correlation at different spatial and temporal scales and the forms of such correlation and consider how uncertainty is propagated with partial correlation. We give a form of the Law of Propagation of Uncertainties that considers the propagation of uncertainties associated with common errors to give the covariance associated with Earth observations in different spectral channels.

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Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
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