Review of Climate Change Assessment using Solar Radiation Data from Satellite Remote Sensing

Thomas U. Omali¹

1. National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Nigeria.

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.1 , pp.52-57, Jan-2023

Online published on Jan 31, 2023

Copyright © Thomas U. Omali . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Climate fundamentally affects man and his environment regardless of the richness and technical know-how of contemporary societies. For this reason, climate change and its effects on the ecosystem have become contemporary global problems. In the course of scientific study about climate change, it has become obvious that climate change holds substantial risks for people, the natural resources and the ecosystems on which they depend. Hence, they usually result in increased demand on society requiring frequent monitoring of the climate variables. Accurate observations of the climate variables are feasible by various means such as ground-based methods, reanalysis tools, and satellite-based systems. Among the available methods, the application of satellite-based data is more sufficient for multi-scale and instant assessment with a time-based revisit constantly with the earth’s processes. This study is specifically concerned with satellite–enhanced observations of solar radiation for monitoring climate change. Electronic databases were accessed to gather papers that are available in the English language over ten years from 2013 to 2022. Subsequently, 805 peer-reviewed articles were gathered out of which 66 eventually met the review conditions. The suitable papers were categorized and discussed based on their importance on the measurements of radiations. Summarily, this study shows that remote sensing is an effective tool for understanding solar radiation, which is of great significance in monitoring climate change.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Albedo, climatology, earth surface, energy budget, irradiance, radiative fluxes, ToA

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