Arguments against a physical long‐term trend in global ISCCP cloud amounts

By A. Evan, Andrew K. Heidinger, D. Vimont. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Stephen A. Klein
2. M. Webb
3. Sandrine Bony
4. Robert Pincus
5. M. Zelinka
6. Piers M. Forster
7. J. Dufresne
8. M. Byrne

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Stephen A. Klein
2. M. Webb
3. Sandrine Bony
4. Robert Pincus
5. M. Zelinka
6. Piers M. Forster
7. J. Dufresne
8. D. Hartmann

Citations in the corpus

• Enlightening Global Dimming and Brightening (2012, background): “The historic satellite records may suffer to some extent from changes in satellites and viewing geometries, as currently debated (e.g., Evan et al. 2007).”
• Global dimming and brightening: A review (2009, background): “, Evan et al., 2007]. Hinkelman et al. [2009] argue that these spurious trends in the ISCCP cloud cover did not affect the NASA/ GEWEX SRB trends considerably, even so the qualitative evolution of the derived global mean SSR mirrors the ISCCP trends. The uncertainties in representing aerosol effects”
• SOLAR INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE (2010, unknown): “[63] A number of studies have indicated that the ISCCP data set is not suitable for long‐term trend or variation studies [Klein and Hartmann, 1993; Kernthaler et al., 1999; Evan et al., 2007].”
• COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment (2011, background): “Neither does the ISCCP simulator account for the calibration and view-angle-dependent biases that affect the observational database (Evan et al. 2007).”
• Review on Estimation of Land Surface Radiation and Energy Budgets From Ground Measurement, Remote Sensing and Model Simulations (2010, background): “[49] suggested that the ISCCP data in its current form may be inappropriate for certain long-term global studies, especially those focused on trends.”
• An observationally based energy balance for the Earth since 1950 (2009, background): “Trends in cloudiness are problematic because of changes in satellite viewing angles [Evan et al., 2007], but uncorrected International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) data given by Evan et al.”
• Decadal changes in radiative fluxes at land and ocean surfaces and their relevance for global warming (2016, background): “due to changes in satellites, viewing geometries, inaccurate positioning, or sensor degradation, particularly in the earlier records.(23) To enlarge the limited number of direct SSR observations in space and back in time, more widely measured meteorological quantities have been proposed as proxies f”
• Atmospheric impacts on climatic variability of surface incident solar radiation (2012, background): “Satellite-derivedRs (Pinker et al., 2005) has a better spatial coverage but may have spurious variability resulting from changes of satellites, their sensor calibration, and undetected low clouds (Evan et al., 2007).”
• Energetic Constraints on Precipitation Under Climate Change (2012, background): “One of the problems with the approach adopted by SRB and ISCCP is that surface radiative fluxes are not well constrained by the satellite measurements, in particular for the longwave fluxes, and homogeneity of the ISCCP data set is questionable (Evan et al. 2007).”