SRB Level 2
Entry Title: Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release 3.0 QC Longwave monthly data in netcdf format
Entry ID: SRB_REL3.0_LPLA_MONTHLY_NC_1
Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget
Description
The data set contains monthly average global fields of three longwave (LW) surface radiative parameters and three input meteorological parameters derived within 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 six parameters in these files as follows: 1. Surface Downward Longwave Flux (DLF), 2. Surface Net Longwave Flux (NLF) 3. Surface Clear Sky Downward Longwave Flux (CSDLF), 4. Surface Skin Temperature (TSKIN), 5. Total Column Precipitable Water (PW), and 6. Total Cloud Fraction (CLD). These parameters are derived originally on a 3-hourly temporal resolution. The 3-hourly values are first averaged into daily values, which are then averaged into monthly values given in these files. 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:
- CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- CLOUD TYPES
- ABSORPTION
- SOLAR RADIATION
- AEROSOL RADIANCE
- OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- TRANSMITTANCE
- ALBEDO
- CLOUD FREQUENCY > CLOUD PROPERTIES
- Organic Carbon and Elemental Carbon (OC/EC)
- Column Precipitable Water
- 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
- Surface Skin Temperature
- Total Cloud Amount
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