Responsible person: Steven Dewitte
Overall description
Long term monitoring of the solar irradiance for climate change studies.
Goals for 2009-2010
- Launch preparation of SOVAP radiometer for flight on PICARD with foreseen launch in November 2009 - February 2010 time frame.
- After SOVAP launch: SOVAP instrument testing during commissioning activities, first validation SOVAP flight processing software, first validation scientific results. A first journal paper with the basic validation results is expected to be submitted for review one year after the first solar observations.
- Processing and analysis of measurements of DIARAD radiometer on SOHO.
- Refurbishment of SOVAP QM radiometer.
- Temporary integration of SOVAP QM radiometer in 'Picard-Sol' at CERGA for safe non-standard flight instrument operation testing and for ground solar measurements
- Measurement campaign with SOVAP QM radiometer at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station during 2010-2011 Southern Hemisphere summer season.
- Refurbishment and re-characterisation of SOVA1 radiometer which has flight heritage from 1992 Eureca space flight.
- Contribute to international radiometer comparison for resolving absolute scale difference between TIM and other radiometers. Laboratory comparison of SOVA 1 with cryogenic radiometer at LASP.
- Continue SIMBA instrument design, feasability and optimisation studies.
- Built prototypes of SIMBA instrument and make laboratory tests of critical elements for instrument accuracy.
- Start SIMBA-OUFTI cubesat satellite integration study.
