Abstract
The surface radiation budget (SRB) and the atmospheric radiative flux divergence (ARD) are vital components of the weather and climate system. We explain the importance of radiation in a complex international scientific endeavor the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) . The radiative transfer techniques and satellite instrumentation that will be used to retrieve the SRB and ARD later in this decade with the Clouds and the Earth''s Radiant Energy System (CERES) are discussed CERES is a component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite program. Examples of consistent SRB and ARD retrievals made with Nimbus-7 and International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) data from July 1983 are presented. 1.
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