Surface Radiation Budget
The NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release 4-IP data sets contain global 3-hourly, daily, monthly/3-hourly, and monthly averages of surface and top-of atmosphere (TOA) longwave and shortwave radiative flux parameters on a 1°x1° grid. Model inputs of cloud amounts and other atmospheric state parameters are also available in the ancillary data set. The primary inputs to the models are visible and infrared radiances from International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) pixel-level (HXS) data along with cloud and surface properties derived from those data. NOAA/NCEI also provides ancillary files with the HXS data, of which temperature and moisture profiles and total column ozone were inputs to the SRB models.
Release 4-IP products differ substantially from the previous SRB Release 3.0 arising from numerous improvements of the algorithms and input data sets. The Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) provided online details all changes applicable to Release 4-IP. Temporal coverage of Release 4-IP extends from mid-1983 through mid-2017 for global shortwave fluxes and 1988 through 2009 for global longwave fluxes. Additional land-only longwave coverage is available from mid-1983 through 1987 and ocean-only from 2010 through mid-2017. All fluxes are available in netCDF-4 format.
Additional information is available at https://gewex-srb.larc.nasa.gov
Disciplines: Clouds Radiation Budget
SRB Mission Publications
Ding, Kan; Deng, Jianming; Qin, Boqiang (2023). The Potential Use of Global Evapotranspiration Products and Models to Estimate Lake Residence Time at Large Scale.
Zhang, Shiyu; Wang, Minghao; Wang, Lanning; Liang, Xin-Zhong; Sun, Chao; Li, Qingquan (2023). Sensitivity of the simulation of extreme precipitation events in China to different cumulus parameterization schemes and the underlying mechanisms.
Quaglia, Ilaria; Timmreck, Claudia; Niemeier, Ulrike; Visioni, Daniele; Pitari, Giovanni; Brodowsky, Christina; Brühl, Christoph; Dhomse, Sandip S.; Franke, Henning; Laakso, Anton; Mann, Graham W.; Rozanov, Eugene; Sukhodolov, Timofei (2023). Interactive stratospheric aerosol models' response to different amounts and altitudes of SO2 injection during the 1991 Pinatubo eruption.
Doering, Kenji; Steinschneider, Scott (2022). Summer Covariability of Surface Climate for Renewable Energy across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High.
Xie, Zhiling; Wang, Bin (2022). Summer Atmospheric Heat Sources over the Western–Central Tibetan Plateau: An Integrated Analysis of Multiple Reanalysis and Satellite Datasets.
Zhang, T., P. W. Stackhouse, S. J. Cox, and J. C. Mikovitz (2020). The uncertainty of the BSRN monthly mean Global 1 and Global 2 fluxes due to missing hourly means with and without quality-control and an examination through validation of the NASA GEWEX SRB datasets.. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 255, 107272, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107272
Bosilovich, M., Franklin R. Robertson, Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr (2020). El Niño Related Tropical Land Surface Water and Energy Response in MERRA-2.. J. Climate, Retrieved from https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0231.1
Kummerow, Christian, Robert Adler, Stefan Kinne, William Rossow, Paul Stackhouse, Carol Anne Clayson, Matthew McCabe, Diego Miralles, Carlos Jimenez (2019). The GDAP Integrated Product. GEWEX News, 29
Cox, Stephen J.; Stackhouse, Paul W.; Gupta, Shashi K.; Mikovitz, J. Colleen; Zhang, Taiping (2019). NASA/GEWEX shortwave surface radiation budget: Integrated data product with reprocessed radiance, cloud, and meteorology inputs, and new surface albedo treatment. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1810, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4975541
Zhang, Taiping, Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr., Stephen J. Cox, J. Colleen Mikovitz, and C. Long (2019). Clear-sky Shortwave Downward Flux at the Earth’s Surface: Ground-Based Data vs. Satellite-Based Data.. J. of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, (224), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.11.015