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CLARREO (Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory) is a high-priority NASA decadal survey mission, originally selected as such by the National Research Council in 2007.[1] The CLARREO mission is intended to provide a metrology laboratory in orbit to accurately quantify and attribute Earth's climate change (see List of climate research satellites). The mission is also designed to transfer its high accuracy to other spaceborne sensors. It would serve as a reference calibration standard in orbit,[2] making climate trends apparent in their data sets by 2055, within a 30-year time frame after its planned launch in the 2020s.[3] These measurements may go on to enable testing, validation, and improvement of climate model prediction.
Due to funding cuts in announced for the 2012 budget, the CLARREO mission was significantly scaled back, while remaining spaceborne projects were eyed to fill the gap.[4] In the President's financial year 2016 budget request, a smaller CLARREO Pathfinder (CPF) mission was provided $76.9M to demonstrate essential measurement technologies of the CLARREO Tier 1 Decadal Survey mission.[5] That funding will potentially support the flight of the Reflected Solar (RS) spectrometer, which is one piece of the full Decadal Survey-recommended mission, hosted on the International Space Station (ISS) from December 2023.[6] The Trump administration unsuccessfully tried several times to defund the mission.[7][8]
- ^ National Research Council, Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 426pp, 2007.[page needed]
- ^ Fox, Nigel; Kaiser-Weiss, Andrea; Schmutz, Werner; Thome, Kurtis; Young, Dave; Wielicki, Bruce; Winkler, Rainer; Woolliams, Emma (October 28, 2011). "Accurate radiometry from space: an essential tool for climate studies". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 369 (1953): 4028–4063. Bibcode:2011RSPTA.369.4028F. doi:10.1098/rsta.2011.0246. PMID 21930564. S2CID 25431087.
- ^ Wielicki, Bruce A.; Young, D. F.; Mlynczak, M. G.; Thome, K. J.; Leroy, S.; Corliss, J.; Anderson, J. G.; Ao, C. O.; Bantges, R.; Best, F.; Bowman, K.; Brindley, H.; Butler, J. J.; Collins, W.; Dykema, J. A.; Doelling, D. R.; Feldman, D. R.; Fox, N.; Huang, X.; Holz, R.; Huang, Y.; Jin, Z.; Jennings, D.; Johnson, D. G.; Jucks, K.; Kato, S.; Kirk-Davidoff, D. B.; Knuteson, R.; Kopp, G.; Kratz, D. P.; Liu, X.; Lukashin, C.; Mannucci, A. J.; Phojanamongkolkij, N.; Pilewskie, P.; Ramaswamy, V.; Revercomb, H.; Rice, J.; Roberts, Y.; Roithmayr, C. M.; Rose, F.; Sandford, S.; Shirley, E. L.; Smith, W. L.; Soden, B.; Speth, P. W.; Sun, W.; Taylor, P. C.; Tobin, D.; Xiong, X. (October 1, 2013). "Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 94 (10): 1519–1539. Bibcode:2013BAMS...94.1519W. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00149.1.
- ^ LaRC, Denise Lineberry (June 6, 2013). "Budget issues delay Earth science mission".
- ^ "FY 2016 President's Budget Request Summary" (PDF). www.nasa.gov.
- ^ Atkinson, Joe (September 15, 2016). "CLARREO Pathfinder Undergoes Successful Mission Concept Review". NASA. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- ^ Trump, Donald J. (March 13, 2017). "America First-A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Retrieved July 19, 2017 – via National Archives.
- ^ Voosen, Paul (September 28, 2018). "NASA climate mission Trump tried to kill moves forward". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aav5703. S2CID 186784212.