GEWEX-RFA Data Set Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Project Title: GEWEX-RFA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Data product name: GEBA_EdXXX 1) Contact for scientific questions about data Name: Martin Wild Address: ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Telephone: +1 44 632 82 78 E-mail address: martin.wild@env.ethz.ch URL: http://www.iac.ethz.ch/people/wild 2) What is the name of the original archived data set from which this GEWEX-RFA subset was produced? Global Energy Balance Archive (GEBA) Status Dec 2008 3) Is the original archived data set currently available from another data center or web site? Yes If so, please list addresses or URLs: Current website under construction: http://proto-geba.ethz.ch/ Once completed and official it will become http://www.geba.ethz.ch/ 4) Brief data description: A reference or URL for the complete original archived data set documentation, followed by a brief summary of features of particular relevance to the RFA submission (such as gap filling method), is the preferred approach. (Items of interest: input data streams, name of algorithm used to produce data, start and end time of data, gaps in spatial or temporal coverage, and data quality issues, etc.). See http://proto-geba.ethz.ch/ (or in future http://www.geba.ethz.ch/) for details. 5) History of updates and changes. If you resubmit a new version of any part of this data product to GEWEX-RFA, please use this space to record the reasons for the new submission (i.e., fixed error in ___ parameter; changed to area-weighted spatial averaging, etc.) Please specify the parameter(s) affected, new RFA number(s), and the date of the change. 6) Please provide a list of publications and journal articles pertaining to these data (if any); or a link to a bibliography for the product. Ohmura, A., H. Gilgen, and M. Wild (1989), Global Energy Balance Archive GEBA, World Climate Program - Water Project A7, Zuercher Geografische Schriften, 34, Verlag der Fachvereine, Zürich, 62 pp. Gilgen, H., M. Wild, and A. Ohmura (1998), Means and trends of shortwave irradiance at the surface estimated from GEBA, J. Clim., 11, 2042-2061. Gilgen, H., and A. Ohmura (1999), The Global Energy Balance Archive, BAMS, 831-850. Wild, M., and 9 co-authors (2005), From dimming to brightening: Decadal changes in surface solar radiation, Science, 308, 847-850. Wild, M., B. Trüssel, A. Ohmura, C.N. Long, E.G. Dutton, G. König-Langlo, and A. Tsvetkov (2009), Global dimming and brightening: An update beyond 2000, J. Geophys. Res. (in press). 7) If you would like a specific citation or acknowlegment when these data are used in a publication, please provide that here: ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, is acknowledged for providing and maintaining the Global Energy Balance Archive Data. 8) Please indicate below all data types currently included in the GEWEX-RFA archive for this data product. A) Top of atmosphere data products _____ Maps (Parameters: list here) _____ Time series (Parameters: list here) B) Surface data products _____ Maps (Parameters: list here) _____ Time series (Parameters: list here) C) Ground-based measurements __X__ Time series (Parameters: SWDHEM) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Atmospheric Science Data Center NASA Langley Research Center User and Data Services MS 157D 2 South Wright St. Hampton, VA 23681-2199 Tel: (757) 864-8656 Fax: (757) 864-8807 Internet: larc@eos.nasa.gov URL: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/