Remote Sensing from Space

2026

• E. Dimitropoulou, P. de Buyl, N. Clerbaux (2026). Satellite-based estimation of high-altitude ice cloud radiative forcing derived through a Rapid Contrail-RF Estimation Approach. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 19(2), 437--459. doi:10.5194/amt-19-437-2026

2025

• Thorsten Mauritsen, Yoko Tsushima, Benoit Meyssignac, Norman G. Loeb, Maria Hakuba, Peter Pilewskie, Jason Cole, Kentaroh Suzuki, Thomas P. Ackerman, Richard P. Allan, Timothy Andrews, Frida A. -M. Bender, Jonah Bloch-Johnson, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo, Anca Brookshaw, Paulo Ceppi, Nicolas Clerbaux, Andrew E. Dessler, Aaron Donohoe, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Veronika Eyring, Kirsten L. Findell, Andrew Gettelman, Jake J. Gristey, Ed Hawkins, Patrick Heimbach, Helene T. Hewitt, Nadir Jeevanjee, Colin Jones, Sarah M. Kang, Seiji Kato, Jennifer E. Kay, Stephen A. Klein, Reto Knutti, Ryan Kramer, June-Yi Lee, Daniel T. McCoy, Brian Medeiros, Linda Megner, Angshuman Modak, Tomoo Ogura, Matthew D. Palmer, David Paynter, Johannes Quaas, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Mark Ringer, Karina Schuckmann, Steven Sherwood, Bjorn Stevens, Ivy Tan, George Tselioudis, Rowan Sutton, Aiko Voigt, Masahiro Watanabe, Mark J. Webb, Martin Wild, Mark D. Zelinka (2025). Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades. AGU Advances, 6(3), e2024AV001636. doi:10.1029/2024AV001636
• Howard W. Barker, Jason N. S. Cole, Najda Villefranque, Zhipeng Qu, Almudena Velázquez Blázquez, Carlos Domenech, Shannon L. Mason, Robin J. Hogan (2025). Radiative closure assessment of retrieved cloud and aerosol properties for the EarthCARE mission: the ACMB-DF product. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 18(13), 3095-3107. doi:10.5194/amt-18-3095-2025
• Xinyuan Hou, Ilias Fountoulakis, Philippe Blanc, Christine Aebi, Stelios Kazadzis (2025). Intrahour solar radiation forecasting based on sun visibility for different cloud types. Solar Energy, 294, 113477. doi:10.1016/j.solener.2025.113477

2024

• Almudena Velázquez Blázquez, Carlos Domenech, Edward Baudrez, Nicolas Clerbaux, Carla Salas Molar, Nils Madenach (2024). Retrieval Of Top-Of-Atmosphere Fluxes From Combined EarthCARE Lidar, Imager, And Broadband Radiometer Observations: The BMA-FLX Product. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 17, 7007-7026. doi:10.5194/amt-17-7007-2024
• Almudena Velázquez Blázquez, Edward Baudrez, Nicolas Clerbaux, Carlos Domenech (2024). Unfiltering Of The EarthCARE Broadband Radiometer (BBR) Observations: The BM-RAD Product. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 17, 4245-4256. doi:10.5194/amt-17-4245-2024
• Irene Ortiz, Ermioni Dimitropoulou, Pierre de Buyl, Nicolas Clerbaux, Javier Garcı́a-Heras, Amin Jafarimoghaddam, Hugues Brenot, Jeroen van Gent, Klaus Sievers, Evelyn Otero, Parthiban Loganathan, Manuel Soler (2024). Satellite-Based Quantification of Contrail Radiative Forcing over Europe: A Two-Week Analysis of Aviation-Induced Climate Effects. Sesar Innovation Days 2024, , arXiv:2409.10166. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.10166

2023

• Tom Akkermans, Nicolas Clerbaux (2023). Validation of the CLARA-A3 Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes Climate Data Record. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(11), 1523-1539. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0065.1
• Karl-Göran Karlsson, Martin Stengel, Jan Fokke Meirink, Aku Riihelä, Jörg Trentmann, Tom Akkermans, Diana Stein, Abhay Devasthale, Salomon Eliasson, Erik Johansson, Nina Håkansson, Irina Solodovnik, Nikos Benas, Nicolas Clerbaux, Nathalie Selbach, Marc Schröder, Rainer Hollmann (2023). CLARA-A3: The third edition of the AVHRR-based CM SAF climate data record on clouds, radiation and surface albedo covering the period 1979 to 2023. Earth System Science Data, 15(11), 4901-4926. doi:10.5194/essd-15-4901-2023
• David P. Donovan, Pavlos Kollias, Almudena Velázquez Blázquez, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff (2023). The generation of EarthCARE L1 test data sets using atmospheric model data sets. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16(21), 5327-5356. doi:10.5194/amt-16-5327-2023

2022

• D. Smittarello, B. Smets, J. Barrière, C. Michellier, A. Oth, T. Shreve, R. Grandin, N. Theys, H. Brenot, V. Cayol, P. Allard, C. Caudron, O. Chevrel, F. Darchambeau, P. de Buyl, L. Delhaye, D. Derauw, G. Ganci, H. Geirsson, E. Kamate Kaleghetso, J. Kambale Makundi, I. Kambale Nguomoja, C. Kasereka Mahinda, M. Kervyn, C. Kimanuka Ruriho, H. Le Mével, S. Molendijk, O. Namur, S. Poppe, M. Schmid, J. Subira, C. Wauthier, M. Yalire, N. d'Oreye, F. Kervyn, A. Syavulisembo Muhindo (2022). Precursor-free eruption triggered by edifice rupture at Nyiragongo volcano. Nature, 609(7925), 83-88. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05047-8 Download

2021

• Tom Akkermans, Nicolas Clerbaux (2021). Retrieval of Daily Mean Top-of-Atmosphere Reflected Solar Flux Using the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Instruments. Remote Sensing, 13(18), 3695. doi:10.3390/rs13183695 Download
• Alexandre Payez, Steven Dewitte, Nicolas Clerbaux (2021). Dual View on Clear-Sky Top-of-Atmosphere Albedos from Meteosat Second Generation Satellites. Remote Sensing, 13(9), 1655. doi:10.3390/rs13091655 Download

2020

• Fabian Senf, Aiko Voigt, Nicolas Clerbaux, Anja Hünerbein, Hartwig Deneke (2020). Increasing Resolution and Resolving Convection Improve the Simulation of Cloud-Radiative Effects Over the North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 125(19), e2020JD032667. doi:10.1029/2020JD03266710.1002/essoar.10502408.2
• Nicolas Clerbaux, Tom Akkermans, Edward Baudrez, Almudena Velazquez Blazquez, William Moutier, Johan Moreels, Christine Aebi (2020). The Climate Monitoring SAF Outgoing Longwave Radiation from AVHRR. Remote Sensing, 12(6), 929. doi:10.3390/rs12060929 Download
• Tom Akkermans, Nicolas Clerbaux (2020). Narrowband-to-Broadband Conversions for Top-of-Atmosphere Reflectance from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). Remote Sensing, 12(2), 305. doi:10.3390/rs12020305 Download

2019

• Steven Dewitte, Nicolas Clerbaux, Jan Cornelis (2019). Decadal Changes of the Reflected Solar Radiation and the Earth Energy Imbalance. Remote Sensing, 11(6), 663. doi:10.3390/rs11060663 Download
• William Moutier, Sandy Thomalla, Stewart Bernard, Galina Wind, Thomas Ryan-Keogh, Marié Smith (2019). Evaluation of Chlorophyll-a and POC MODIS Aqua Products in the Southern Ocean. Remote Sensing, 11(15), 1793. doi:10.3390/rs11151793

2018

• Steven Dewitte, Nicolas Clerbaux (2018). Decadal Changes of Earth's Outgoing Longwave Radiation. Remote Sensing, 10(10), 1539. doi:10.3390/rs10101539 Download
• Uwe Pfeifroth, Jedrzej S. Bojanowski, Nicolas Clerbaux, Veronica Manara, Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, Jörg Trentmann, Jakub P. Walawender, Rainer Hollmann (2018). Satellite-based trends of solar radiation and cloud parameters in Europe. Advances in Science and Research, 15, 31-37. doi:10.5194/asr-15-31-2018
• F. Tornow, H. W. Barker, A. Velázquez Blázquez, C. Domenech, J. Fischer (2018). EarthCARE's Broadband Radiometer: Uncertainties Associated with Cloudy Atmospheres. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 35(11), 2201-2211. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0083.1
• Lucile Duforêt-Gaurier, David Dessailly, William Moutier, Hubert Loisel (2018). Assessing the Impact of a Two-Layered Spherical Geometry of Phytoplankton Cells on the Bulk Backscattering Ratio of Marine Particulate Matter. Applied Sciences, 8(12). doi:10.3390/app8122689 Download

2017

• Florian Tornow, Nicolas Clerbaux, Alessandro Ipe, Manon Urbain (2017). An improved method to estimate reference cloud-free images for the visible band of geostationary satellites. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38(23), 7220-7241. doi:10.1080/01431161.2017.1372859 Download
• Steven Dewitte, Nicolas Clerbaux (2017). Measurement of the Earth Radiation Budget at the Top of the Atmosphere — A Review. Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1143. doi:10.3390/rs9111143 Download
• Manon Urbain, Nicolas Clerbaux, Alessandro Ipe, Florian Tornow, Rainer Hollmann, Edward Baudrez, Almudena Velazquez Blazquez, Johan Moreels (2017). The CM SAF TOA Radiation Data Record Using MVIRI and SEVIRI. Remote Sensing, 9(5), 466. doi:10.3390/rs9050466 Download

2016

• R. Parfitt, J. E. Russell, R. Bantges, N. Clerbaux, H. Brindley (2016). A study of the time evolution of GERB shortwave calibration by comparison with CERES Edition-3A data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 186, 416-427. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.09.005

2015

• A. J. Illingworth, H. W. Barker, A. Beljaars, M. Ceccaldi, H. Chepfer, N. Clerbaux, J. Cole, J. Delanoë, C. Domenech, D. P. Donovan, S. Fukuda, M. Hirakata, R. J. Hogan, A. Huenerbein, P. Kollias, T. Kubota, T. Nakajima, T. Y. Nakajima, T. Nishizawa, Y. Ohno, H. Okamoto, R. Oki, K. Sato, M. Satoh, M. W. Shephard, A. Velázquez-Blázquez, U. Wandinger, T. Wehr, G. -J. van Zadelhoff (2015). The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96(8), 1311-1332. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00227.1

2014

• Ilse Decoster, Nicolas Clerbaux, Edward Baudrez, Steven Dewitte, Alessandro Ipe, Stijn Nevens, Almudena Velazquez Blazquez, Jan Cornelis (2014). Spectral Aging Model Applied to Meteosat First Generation Visible Band. Remote Sensing, 6(3), 2534-2571. doi:10.3390/rs6032534 Download
• Ilse Decoster (2014). Spectral ageing model for the Meteosat First Generation visible band. PhD thesis at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2013

• H. Brenot, J. Neméghaire, L. Delobbe, N. Clerbaux, P. De Meutter, A. Deckmyn, A. Delcloo, L. Frappez, M. Van Roozendael (2013). Preliminary signs of the initiation of deep convection by GNSS. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 13(11), 5425-5449. doi:10.5194/acp-13-5425-2013
• I. Decoster, N. Clerbaux, E. Baudrez, S. Dewitte, A. Ipe, S. Nevens, A. Velazquez Blazquez, J. Cornelis (2013). A Spectral Aging Model for theMeteosat-7 Visible Band. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 30(3), 496-509. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00124.1 Download
• I. Decoster, N. Clerbaux, Y. M. Govaerts, E. Baudrez, A. Ipe, S. Dewitte, S. Nevens, A. Velazquez Blazquez, J. Cornelis (2013). Evidence of pre-launch characterization problem of Meteosat-7 visible spectral response. Remote Sensing Letters, 4(10), 1008-1017. doi:10.1080/2150704X.2013.828181 Download

2012

• S. Dewitte, N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, A. Velazquez, E. Baudrez, S. Nevens, I. Decoster (2013). Climate monitoring with Earth radiation budget measurements. American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 612-615. doi:10.1063/1.4804844
• Nicolas Clerbaux, Edward Baudrez, Ilse Decoster, Steven Dewitte, Alessandro Ipe, Stijn Nevens, Almudena Velazquez-Blazquez (2013). The climate monitoring SAF TOA radiation ``GERB'' datasets. American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 652-655. doi:10.1063/1.4804854

2011

• Wouter Greuell, Erik van Meijgaard, Nicolas Clerbaux, Jan Fokke Meirink (2011). Evaluation of Model-Predicted Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation and Cloud Parameters over Africa with Observations from GERB and SEVIRI. Journal of Climate, 24(15), 4015-4036. doi:10.1175/2011JCLI3856.1
• Alessandro Ipe (2011). Cloud properties retrieval for climate studies from geostationary orbit. PhD thesis at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2009

• N. Clerbaux, J. E. Russell, S. Dewitte, C. Bertrand, D. Caprion, B. De Paepe, L. Gonzalez Sotelino, A. Ipe, R. Bantges, H. E. Brindley (2009). Comparison of GERB instantaneous radiance and flux products with CERES Edition-2 data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113(1), 102-114. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.016 Download
• Bart de Paepe, Steven Dewitte (2009). Dust Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval over a Desert Surface Using the SEVIRI Window Channels. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26(4), 704. doi:10.1175/2008JTECHA1109.1 Download

2008

• N. Clerbaux, S. Dewitte, C. Bertrand, D. Caprion, B. de Paepe, L. Gonzalez, A. Ipe, J. E. Russell (2008). Unfiltering of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Data. Part II: Longwave Radiation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25(7), 1106. doi:10.1175/2008JTECHA1002.1 Download
• N. Clerbaux, S. Dewitte, C. Bertrand, D. Caprion, B. de Paepe, L. Gonzalez, A. Ipe, J. E. Russell, H. Brindley (2008). Unfiltering of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Data. Part I: Shortwave Radiation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25(7), 1087. doi:10.1175/2007JTECHA1001.1 Download
• S. Dewitte, L. Gonzalez, N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, C. Bertrand, B. de Paepe (2008). The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Edition 1 data processing algorithms. Advances in Space Research, 41(11), 1906-1913. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.042 Download
• C. Bertrand, L. Gonzalez, A. Ipe, N. Clerbaux, S. Dewitte (2008). Improvement in the GERB short wave flux estimations over snow covered surfaces. Advances in Space Research, 41(11), 1894-1905. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2006.12.016 Download
• Nicolas Clerbaux (2008). Processing of Geostationary Observations for Earth Radiation Budget Studies. PhD thesis at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Bart De Paepe, Alexander Ignatov, Steven Dewitte, Alessandro Ipe (2008). Aerosol retrieval over ocean from SEVIRI for the use in GERB Earth's radiation budget analyses. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(5), 2455-2468. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.005 Download

2006

• Cédric Bertrand, Joanna Futyan, Alessandro Ipe, Luis Gonzalez, Nicolas Clerbaux (2006). Diurnal Asymmetry in the GERB SW Fluxes. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44(12), 3585-3600. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2006.881119 Download
• Cédric Bertrand, Nicolas Clerbaux, Alessandro Ipe, Steven Dewitte, Luis Gonzalez (2006). Angular distribution models anisotropic correction factors and sun glint: a sensitivity study. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(9), 1741-1757. doi:10.1080/01431160500107015 Download

2005

• J. E. Harries, J. E. Russell, J. A. Hanafin, H. Brindley, J. Futyan, J. Rufus, S. Kellock, G. Matthews, R. Wrigley, A. Last, J. Mueller, R. Mossavati, J. Ashmall, E. Sawyer, D. Parker, M. Caldwell, P. M. Allan, A. Smith, M. J. Bates, B. Coan, B. C. Stewart, D. R. Lepine, L. A. Cornwall, D. R. Corney, M. J. Ricketts, D. Drummond, D. Smart, R. Cutler, S. Dewitte, N. Clerbaux, L. Gonzalez, A. Ipe, C. Bertrand, A. Joukoff, D. Crommelynck, N. Nelms, D. T. Llewellyn-Jones, G. Butcher, G. L. Smith, Z. P. Szewczyk, P. E. Mlynczak, A. Slingo, R. P. Allan, M. A. Ringer (2005). The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Project.. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86(7), 945-960. doi:10.1175/BAMS-86-7-945 Download
• Jim M. Haywood, Richard P. Allan, Ian Culverwell, Tony Slingo, Sean Milton, John Edwards, Nicolas Clerbaux (2005). Can desert dust explain the outgoing longwave radiation anomaly over the Sahara during July 2003?. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 110(D5), D05105. doi:10.1029/2004JD005232
• C. Bertrand, N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, S. Dewitte, L. Gonzalez (2005). Angular Distribution Models, Anisotropic Correction Factors, and Mixed Clear-Scene Types: A Sensitivity Study. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 43(1), 92-102. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2004.838361 Download

2004

• A. Ipe, C. Bertrand, N. Clerbaux, S. Dewitte, L. Gonzalez (2004). Validation and homogenization of cloud optical depth and cloud fraction retrievals for GERB/SEVIRI scene identification using Meteosat-7 data. Atmospheric Research, 72, 17-37. doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.03.010 Download
• Y. M. Govaerts, M. Clerici, N. Clerbaux (2004). Operational Calibration of the Meteosat Radiometer VIS Band. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 42(9), 1900-1914. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2004.831882
• C. Bertrand, N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, L. Gonzalez (2004). Corrigendium to ``Estimation of the 2002 mount etna eruption cloud radiative forcing from meteosat-7 data'' [Remote Sensing of Environment 87 (2003) 257-272]. Remote Sensing of Environment, 90(1), 135. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2003.11.012 Download
• C. Bertrand, A. Royer (2004). Aerosol optical depth spatio-temporal characterization over the Canadian BOREAS domain. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25(15), 2903-2917. doi:10.1080/01431160310001632657 Download
• Cédric Bertrand (2004). Les derniers 1000 ans. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 336(7), 741-750. doi:10.1016/j.crte.2003.12.022 Download

2003

• C. Bertrand, N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, L. Gonzalez (2003). Estimation of the 2002 Mount Etna eruption cloud radiative forcing from Meteosat-7 data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 87(2-3), 257-272. doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00183-4 Download
• A. Ipe, N. Clerbaux, C. Bertrand, S. Dewitte, L. Gonzalez (2003). Pixel-scale composite top-of-the-atmosphere clear-sky reflectances for Meteosat-7 visible data. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 108(D19), 4612. doi:10.1029/2002JD002771 Download
• N. Clerbaux (2003). Outgoing longwave flux estimation: improvement of angular modelling using spectral information. Remote Sensing of Environment, 85(3), 389-395. doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00015-4 Download
• N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, C. Bertrand, S. Dewitte, B. Nicula, L. Gonzalez (2003). Evidence of azimuthal anisotropy for the thermal infrared radiation leaving the Earth's atmosphere. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(14), 3005-3010. doi:10.1080/0143116031000106698 Download

1999

• S. Dewitte, N. Clerbaux (1999). First Experience with GERB Ground Segment Processing Software: Validation with CERES PFM Data. Advances in Space Research, 24(7), 925-929. doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00357-9