SRB Level 4
Entry Title: GEWEX SRB Integrated Product (Rel-4) Shortwave 3-Hourly Fluxes
Entry ID: GEWEXSRB_Rel4-IP_Shortwave_3hrly_1
Clouds Radiation Budget
Description
GEWEXSRB_Rel4-IP_Shortwave_3hrly is the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Integrated Product (Rel-4) Shortwave 3-hourly data product. It contains global fields of 11 shortwave surface and Top of Atmosphere (TOA), radiative parameters derived with the Shortwave algorithm of the NASA World Climate Research Programme/Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment (WCRP/GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project. This version is known as Release 4-Integrated Product. The fluxes include all-sky, clear-sky and pristine-sky TOA upward fluxes, incoming (downward) TOA flux, and all-sky, clear-sky and pristine-sky upward and downward fluxes at surface. Surface PAR, cloud fraction, solar zenith angle, average solar zenith angle and a status flag of filled fluxes are also included. Inputs to the shortwave algorithm are cloud and radiance information from International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) HXS, total column precipitable water from ISCCP nnHIRS, Total Solar Irradiance from SORCE TIM, ozone from ISCCP, and MAC V1 aerosol amounts and radiative properties. The temporal range is July 1983 through June 2017. Data collection for this product is complete.
Resources and Documentation
PROJECT HOME PAGE
NASA GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget project page
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/srb/SRB_Rel4-IP_ATBD.pdf
ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)
- How to cite ASDC data
DATA CITATION POLICY
- ASDC Data and Information for SRB
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- CLOUDS
- VEGETATION
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION
- ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIATION
- TRANSMITTANCE
- CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
- ALBEDO
- ATMOSPHERIC HEATING
- NET RADIATION
- SUNSHINE
- ABSORPTION
- SCATTERING
- SOLAR RADIATION
- RADIATIVE FLUX
- solar zenith angle
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
NetCDF-4
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Spatial Information
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Longitude Resolution: 1.0 degree
Latitude Resolution: 1.0 degree
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC REGION
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 1983-07-01 - 2017-06-30
Temporal Resolution: 3-hourly