GERB
Programme background
The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument makes accurate measurements of the Earth's radiation budget from a geostationary orbit. NERC funded the instrument, launched on the European Space Agency's (ESA) satellite Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), on 28 August 2002.
GERB's Principal Investigator is Professor John Harries, of the Space and Atmospheric Physics group at Imperial College. GERB-1 has been developed by a European Consortium led by the UK, together with Belgium and Italy. Within the consortium Imperial College provides instrument calibration and science. The ground support is provided by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
GERB was selected as the Top Science Achievement of NERC funded research in 2003.
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