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GSICS Quarterly Special Issue: Estimating Uncertainties of GSICS Satellite Intercomparison Results

From the GSICS Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2009

As GSICS international research collaboration matures, some focus has shifted from how to inter-compare satellite instruments to how to distribute inter-comparison results. One decision made at the most recent Joint GSICS Research and Data Working Group meeting, held in January 2009 at JMA Headquarters in Tokyo, is for GSICS researchers to develop correction coefficients for each satellite instrument data set that will adjust those data to a state-of-the-art, on-orbit reference standard. In doing so, it has become the responsibility of GSICS researchers to also estimate the uncertainties associated with those correction coefficients. This Special Issue of GSICS Quarterly includes articles focusing on GSICS members' recent progress towards defining these uncertainties.