SRB Level 2
Entry Title: Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release 3.0 QC Longwave 3 hourly monthly data in netcdf format
Entry ID: SRB_REL3.0_LPLA_3HRLY_MONTHLY_NC_1
Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget
Description
The data set contains monthly average/3-hourly (also called diurnally-resolved monthly average) global fields of three longwave (LW) surface radiative parameters derived with the Quality-Check LW (QCLW) algorithm of the NASA World Climate Research Programme/Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment(WCRP/GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project. There are a total of three parameters in these files as follows: 1. Surface Downward Longwave Flux (DLF), 2. Surface Net Longwave Flux (NLF), and 3. Surface Clear Sky Downward Longwave Flux (CSDLF). These parameters were derived originally on a 3-hourly temporal resolution (i.e., a global instantaneous gridded field every 3 hours), namely, at UT hours 00, 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18, and 21 for every day of the month. The 3-hourly values were used to compute monthly averages separately for each of the 8 GMT hours. The current version of the data sets is identified as Release 3.0. It covers a period of 24.5 years from July 1983 to December 2007.
DOI
Resources and Documentation
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- How to cite ASDC data
DATA CITATION POLICY
- ASDC Data and Information for SRB
- Department of Energy (DOE) National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC)
- Solar Energy International (SEI) - A non-profit (501 (c)3) organization whose mission is to provide education and technical assistance so that others will be empowered to use renewable energy technologies
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: "Absorption of Solar Radiation by Clouds: Observations versus Models"
- Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: A Long-Term TOA and Constrained Surface Radiation Budget Dataset Using Merged CERES, ERBE and ISCCP/SRB Products from the Past 30 Years
MICRO ARTICLE
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- AEROSOL RADIANCE
- ABSORPTION
- CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- CLOUD TYPES
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- SOLAR RADIATION
- ALBEDO
- CLOUD FREQUENCY > CLOUD PROPERTIES
- OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
- TRANSMITTANCE
- Organic Carbon and Elemental Carbon (OC/EC)
- Daylight Cloud Fraction
- Daylight Optical Depth
- Monthly Data
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Surface Albedo
- Surface Downward Longwave (LW) Flux
- Surface Irradiance
- Surface Longwave Cloud Radiative Forcing
- Surface Net Irradiance
- Surface Net Longwave (LW) Flux
- Surface Radiation
- Surface Shortwave (SW) Irradiance
Data Distribution
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Spatial Information
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
GLOBAL
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 1983-07-01 - 2007-12-31
Temporal Resolution: 3 Hours