------------------------------------------------------------------------ Project Title: GEWEX-RFA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Data product name: ScaRaB_Ed001 1) Contact for scientific questions about data Name: VIOLLIER Michel Address: LMD Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France Telephone: 33 1 69 33 47 57 E-mail address: viollier@lmd.polytechnique.fr URL: http://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/~Scarab/ 2) Original archived data set from which this GEWEX-RFA subset was produced: ScaRaB, A3 product 3) Other data center or web site: ftp://ftp.climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/Datasets/ScaRaB/a3/ascii/ 4) Brief data description: Two models of the ScaRaB radiometer (Scanner for Radiation Budget) have operated in space aboard the Russian satellites Meteor-3-7 (February 1994 to March 1995) and Resurs 1-4 (August 1998 to April 1999). Considering both missions, 16 months of ERB data were obtained and processed according to ERBE-compatible algorithms. The monthly averages for November 1994 and from November 1998 to March 1999 are less significant due to many missing days. The orbit was sun-synchronous (10:30) for Resurs, but not sun-synchronous for Meteor (slow precession, 24 hours in roughly 200 days). Then four months (July 94, Nov. 94, February 95, end of March 94) are subject to biases in the shortwave (SW) components, since they were observed in ' near-terminator ' (i.e. low-sun) conditions. see also:http://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/~Scarab/ 5) History of updates and changes. / 6) Publications and journal articles pertaining to these data Kandel, R., M. Viollier, P. Raberanto, J. P. Duvel, L. A. Pakhomov, V. A. Golovko, A. P. Trishchenko, J. Mueller, E. Raschke, R. Stuhlmann, and the International ScaRaB Scientific Working Group (ISSWG), 1998: The ScaRaB Earth Radiation Budget Dataset, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 79, 765-783. Duvel, J. P., M. Viollier, P. Raberanto, R. Kandel, M. Haeffelin, L.A. Pakhomov, V.A. Golovko, J. Mueller, R. Stuhlmann, and the International ScaRaB Scientific Working Group (ISSWG), 2001 The ScaRaB-Resurs Earth Radiation Budget Dataset and first results, Bull. Am. Metereol. Soc., 82, 1397-1408. see also: www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/~Scarab/english/refrence.htm 7) Acknowlegment when these data are used in a publication The ScaRaB 1 and 2 experiments are a co-operation between France, Russia and Germany. 8) Data types currently included in the GEWEX-RFA archive for this data product. A) Top of atmosphere data products __X___ 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 _____ Time series (Parameters: list here)