1. Methodology to create a new total solar irradiance record: Making a composite out of multiple data records
- Author
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Greg Kopp, Thierry Dudok de Wit, Claus Fröhlich, Micha Schöll, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder] (LASP), University of Colorado [Boulder], Professionnel sans affiliation, Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC), European Project: 313188,EC:FP7:SPA,FP7-SPACE-2012-1,SOLID(2012), and Sans affiliation
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,[SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph] ,Maximum likelihood ,Composite number ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Solar irradiance ,01 natural sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,Statistical physics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Scaling ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Physics ,Radiative forcing ,Multiple data ,Geophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,13. Climate action ,Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) ,Merge (linguistics) - Abstract
Many observational records critically rely on our ability to merge different (and not necessarily overlapping) observations into a single composite. We provide a novel and fully-traceable approach for doing so, which relies on a multi-scale maximum likelihood estimator. This approach overcomes the problem of data gaps in a natural way and uses data-driven estimates of the uncertainties. We apply it to the total solar irradiance (TSI) composite, which is currently being revised and is critical to our understanding of solar radiative forcing. While the final composite is pending decisions on what corrections to apply to the original observations, we find that the new composite is in closest agreement with the PMOD composite and the NRLTSI2 model. In addition, we evaluate long-term uncertainties in the TSI, which reveal a 1/f scaling, slightly expanded version of a manuscript to appear in Geophysical Research Letters (2017)
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- 2017