Applications
- 5.10.1 Albedo Trend Reporting — Measuring the fraction of solar radiation reflected by Earth's surface and atmosphere over time to detect climate-forcing feedback loops at national and regional scale.
- 5.10.2 Cryosphere Integrity Indices — Continuously measuring ice-sheet mass balance, sea-ice extent, glacier retreat and permafrost stability to produce authoritative national cryosphere integrity indices.
- 5.10.3 Atmospheric Composition Public Trackers — Continuously measuring greenhouse gases, aerosols, and reactive trace species from orbit to produce sovereign, publicly accessible atmospheric composition datasets.
- 5.10.4 Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling Indicators — Measuring sea-surface temperature, salinity, wind stress and latent heat flux from orbit to quantify how the ocean drives — and damps — atmospheric variability.
- 5.10.5 Earth Energy Imbalance Monitoring — Measuring the net difference between incoming solar radiation and outgoing thermal radiation to quantify how much heat the Earth is accumulating.