SRB Level 3
Entry Title: Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release 3.0 Shortwave monthly UTC data in native format
Entry ID: SRB_REL3.0_SW_MONTHLY_UTC_1
Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget
Description
The data set contains monthly average global fields of eleven shortwave(SW) surface radiative parameters derived with the Shortwave algorithm of theNASA World Climate Research Programme /Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment(WCRP/GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project.The data is generated using the Pinker/Laszlo shortwave algorithm (R.T. Pinkerand I. Laszlo, 1992: Modeling Surface Solar Irradiance for SatelliteApplications on a Global Scale, J. Appl. Met., 31, 194-211).These parameters were derived originally on a 3-hourly temporal resolution. The3-hourly values were first averaged into local solar time daily values (seereadme_srb_rel3.0_shortwave_daily.txt). The Daily averages were then averaged into monthly averages. The current version of the data sets is identified as Release 3.0.
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Resources and Documentation
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- 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_REL3.1_G4TSKINONLY_LONGWAVE_3HRLYMONTHLY - Special Edition GEWEX Longwave Monthly Averaged 3-Hourly (Diurnal) Data Set - Direct File Download (.zip)
SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- SOLAR RADIATION
- CLOUD FREQUENCY > CLOUD PROPERTIES
- TRANSMITTANCE
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- ALBEDO
- ABSORPTION
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- AEROSOL RADIANCE
- OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- CLOUD TYPES
- Organic Carbon and Elemental Carbon (OC/EC)
- All-Sky Global Photosynthetically Active Radiation Flux
- All-Sky Surface Downward Shortwave (SW) Flux
- All-Sky Surface Upward Shortwave (SW) Flux
- All-Sky TOA (Top of Atmosphere) Downward Shortwave Flux
- All-Sky TOA (Top of Atmosphere) Upward Shortwave Flux
- Clear-Sky Surface Downward Shortwave (SW) Flux
- Clear-Sky Surface Upward Shortwave (SW) Flux
- Clear-Sky TOA (Top of Atmosphere) Upward Shortwave Flux
- Cosine Solar Zenith Angle From Astronomy
- Cosine Solar Zenith Angle From Satellite
- Daylight Cloud Fraction
- Daylight Optical Depth
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Surface Albedo
- Surface Cloud Forcing
- Surface Net Irradiance
- Surface Radiation
- Surface Shortwave (SW) Irradiance
Data Distribution
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Spatial Information
Spatial Coverage Type: Not provided
Longitude Resolution: 1 degree
Latitude Resolution: 1 degree
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
GLOBAL
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 1983-07-01 - 2007-12-31
Temporal Resolution: 3 Hours