CLARREO Workshop, July 17 - 19, 2007, Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland
Post CLARREO Workshop Information

Draft CLARREO Workshop Report
+ Draft dated 10/10/07 (pdf, 576 KB)

CLARREO Workshop IR Breakout Discussion
+ Response and Discussion Recap (pdf, 932 KB)

EUMETSAT/AMS Satellite Conference –
High Accuracy IR Radiances for Weather and Climate
+ Part 2: Airborne validation of IASI and AIRS (JAIVEx) and the role for future benchmark satellites (CLARREO), Revercomb, et al. (pdf, 1.7 MB)

AGU Fall Meeting Special Session –
A27: SI-Traceable Climate Measurements from Space: Realization and Applications

The AGU Fall Meeting, December 10-14, 2007, San Francisco, CA will have a special session on existing and planned SI-traceable climate measurements. The session has a special focus on GPS/GNSS occultation, total solar irradiance, reflected solar, and spectral infrared measurements for monitoring climate and testing climate models. Abstracts may be submitted by the deadline of 6 September 2007, 2359 UT at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/

Organizers: John Dykema (Harvard University), Dan Kirk-Davidoff (University of Maryland), and Raju Datla (National Institute of Standards and Technology).

Abstract: The NRC Decadal Survey of NASA and NOAA calls for long-term climate records, which are “of high accuracy, tested for systematic errors on-orbit, and tied to irrefutable standards such as those maintained in the U.S. by NIST.” The data sets that result will be considered "climate benchmarks", precisely because their measurements can be traced to international standards. The creation and use of climate benchmark data is a new, emerging field in Earth science, and it spans everything from standards of the international system of measurements, to accepted techniques in meteorology, to instrument design, to remote sensing sampling requirements, to detecting climate change in new data types, and to testing climate models according to their predictive capability. This session will merge presentations in all of these disciplines that directly concern climate benchmarks, present and future.