Estimation of Land Surface Incident Shortwave Radiation from Geostationary Advanced Himawari Imager and Advanced Baseline Imager Observations Using an Optimization Method

Abstract

Surface incident shortwave radiation (ISR) is an important component of the surface radiation budget. We refined the optimization method developed for polar-orbiting satellite data [1] and applied it to estimate ISR from the new generation geostationary Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) onboard the Himawari-8/9 satellite and Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series. Validation of the AHI ISR estimation at 2-km resolution showed an R2 of 0.93, bias of 0.52 W/m2, and RMSE of 106.52 W/m2 for instantaneous estimates; an R2 of 0.95, bias of-0.12 W/m2, and RMSE of 22.49 W/m2 for daily mean ISR; and a bias of-0.18 W/m2 and RMSE of 7.72 W/m2 for monthly mean ISR. Validation of the ABI ISR at 2-km spatial resolution showed an R2 value of 0.93, bias of 8.71 W/m2, and RMSE of 102.30 W/m2 for instantaneous estimates; an R2 of 0.95, bias of-2.38 W/m2, and RMSE of 27.17 W/m2 for daily mean ISR; and a bias of 1.40 W/m2 and RMSE of 14.75 W/m2 for monthly mean ISR. Our study also demonstrated that AHI and ABI observations have realized much better estimations for hourly and diurnal ISR than previous polar-orbiting satellite data because of their higher frequency of sampling on the atmospheric conditions.