SRB Level 2
Entry Title: Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release 3.0 CLDPROPS 3 hourly data in native format
Entry ID: SRB_REL3.0_CLDPROPS_3HRLY_1
Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget
Description
This data set provides 3-hourly global fields of 47 surface and cloud properties that serve as inputs to the GEWEX longwave algorithm of the NASA World Climate Research Programme/Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment (WCRP/GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project. Inputs to the algorithm were obtained from the following sources:Cloud parameters were derived from the International Satellite Cloud ClimatologyProject (Rossow and Schiffer, 1999) DX data product. The cloud pixels wereseparated into categories of high, middle and low where middle and low cloudscould be composed of ice or water. Cloud fractions and cloud optical depthswere determined within these categories. Cloud particle sizes were assumed andcloud physical thicknesses were also assigned based upon information fromliterature. Random overlap is used between the high, middle and low layers tobetter approximate undercast conditions.Temperature and moisture profiles were obtained from the 4-D data assimilationGoddard EOS Data Assimilation System, level-4 (GEOS-4) obtained from the GlobalModeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(GSFC) (Bloom et al., 2005)
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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
- Read Software Package - SRB_REL3.0_LONGWAVE_CLDPROPS_3HRLY - GEWEX Longwave 3-hourly Cloud Properties - Direct File Download (.zip)
SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- ALBEDO
- CLOUD TYPES
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- CLOUD FREQUENCY > CLOUD PROPERTIES
- AEROSOL RADIANCE
- SOLAR RADIATION
- TRANSMITTANCE
- OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
- ABSORPTION
- Organic Carbon and Elemental Carbon (OC/EC)
- Cloud Base Pressure
- Cloud Effective Radius
- Cloud Optical Depth
- Cloud Top Pressure
- Cloud Top Temperature
- Cloud Water Content
- Day Flag
- Daylight Cloud Fraction
- Daylight Optical Depth
- Ice Fraction
- Night Flag
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Snow Fraction
- Surface Albedo
- Surface Irradiance
- Surface Net Irradiance
- Surface Radiation
- Surface Shortwave (SW) Irradiance
- Surface Skin Temperature
- Total Column Precipitable Water
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