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Remote Sens. 2011, 3, 1029-1046; doi:10.3390/rs3051029 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Spatial and Temporal Homogeneity of Solar Surface Irradiance across Satellite Generations ¨ ¨ Rebekka Posselt , Richard Mueller , Reto Stockli and Jorg Trentmann Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Kraehbuehlstrasse 58, CH-8044 Zurich, Switzerland; E-Mails: rebekka.posselt@meteoswiss.ch (R.P.); reto.stoeckli@meteoswiss.ch (R.S.) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Frankfurter Str. 135, D-60387 Offenbach, Germany; E-Mail: joerg.trentmann@dwd.de Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: richard.mueller@dwd.de; Tel.: +49-69-8062-4922; Fax: +49-69-8062-3759. Received: 1 March 2011; in revised form: 4 May 2011 / Accepted: 5 May 2011 / Published: 20 May 2011 Abstract: Solar surface irradiance (SIS) is an essential variable in the radiation budget of the Earth. Climate data records (CDR’s) of SIS are required for climate monitoring, for climate model evaluation and for solar energy applications. A 23 year long (1983–2005) continuous and validated SIS CDR based on the visible channel (0.45–1 m) of the MVIRI instruments onboard the first generation of Meteosat satellites has recently been generated using a climate version of the well established Heliosat method. This version of the Heliosat method includes a newly developed self-calibration algorithm and an improved algorithm to determine the clea