SRB Level 4
Entry Title: GEWEX SRB Integrated Product (Rel-4) Shortwave Monthly Average by UTC Fluxes
Entry ID: GEWEXSRB_Rel4-IP_Shortwave_monthly_utc_1
Clouds Radiation Budget
Description
GEWEXSRB_Rel4-IP_Shortwave_monthly_utc is the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Integrated Product (Rel-4) Shortwave Monthly Average by UTC data product. It contains global fields of 11 shortwave surface and Top of Atmosphere (TOA), radiative parameters derived with the Shortwave algorithm of the NASA World Climate Research Programme/Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment (WCRP/GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project. This version is known as Release 4-Integrated Product. The fluxes include all-sky, clear-sky and pristine-sky TOA upward fluxes, incoming (downward) TOA flux, and all-sky, clear-sky and pristine-sky upward and downward fluxes at surface. Surface PAR, cloud fraction, average solar zenith angle and a status flag of filled fluxes are also included. Inputs to the shortwave algorithm are cloud and radiance information from International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) HXS, total column precipitable water from ISCCP nnHIRS, Total Solar Irradiance from SORCE TIM, ozone from ISCCP, and MAC V1 aerosol amounts and radiative properties. The temporal range is July 1983 through June 2017. These data are averaged from UTC daily averages. Data collection for this product is complete.
Resources and Documentation
PROJECT HOME PAGE
NASA GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget project page
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- SRB Rel4-IP Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document.
ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)
- How to cite ASDC data
DATA CITATION POLICY
- ASDC Data and Information for SRB
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- SRB Release 4 Announcement
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- TRANSMITTANCE
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- NET RADIATION
- CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- RADIATIVE FLUX
- ABSORPTION
- VEGETATION
- ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIATION
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- ATMOSPHERIC HEATING
- SCATTERING
- ALBEDO
- SUNSHINE
- PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- CLOUDS
- INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
- ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
- SOLAR RADIATION
- solar zenith angle
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
NetCDF-4
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Spatial Information
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Longitude Resolution: 1.0 degree
Latitude Resolution: 1.0 degree
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC REGION
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 1983-07-01 - 2017-06-30
Temporal Resolution: 1 month