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The 35-yr NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) observation record offers an excellent opportunity to study decadal climate variability, provided that all participating AVHRR instruments are calibrated on a consistent radiometric scale. Because of the lack of onboard calibration systems, the solar imaging channels of the AVHRR must be vicariously calibrated using invariant Earth targets as a calibrated reference source. The greatest challenge in calibrating the AVHRR dataset is the orbit degradation of the NOAA satellites, which eventually drift into a terminator orbit several years after launch. Therefore, the invariant targets must be characterized over the full range of solar zenith angles (SZAs) sampled by the satellite instrument. This study outlines a multiple invariant Earth target calibration approach specifically designed to account for the degrading NOAA orbits. The desert, polar ice, and deep convective cloud (DCC) invariant targets are characterized over all observed SZAs using NOAA-16 AVHRR measurements, which are referenced to the Aqua MODIS Collection 6 calibration via direct transfer of the MODIS calibration to the NOAA-16 AVHRR instrument using simultaneous nadir overpass (SNO) observations over the North Pole. The multiple invariant target calibrations are combined using the inverse of their temporal variance to optimize the resulting calibration stability. The NOAA-18 AVHRR gains derived using the desert, polar ice, and DCC targets, as well as from SNO, were found consistent within 1%, thereby validating that the Aqua MODIS calibration is effectively transferred to the reference calibration targets. The companion paper, Part II, applies the methodology across the AVHRR record to derive the sensor-specific calibration coefficients.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology – American Meteorological Society
Published: Feb 5, 2016
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