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_SW_DAILY.txt). The Daily averages were then averaged intomonthly averages. The current version of the data sets is identified as Release 3.0.

DOI

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Publications which Cite this Collection

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Ding, Kan; Deng, Jianming; Qin, Boqiang (2023). The Potential Use of Global Evapotranspiration Products and Models to Estimate Lake Residence Time at Large Scale.

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.

Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

PROJECT HOME PAGE

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

DATA CITATION GUIDELINES

• How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• 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

HOW-TO

• Program to read SRB Release 3 Shortwave Monthly in netCDF - Direct File Download (.txt)

MICRO ARTICLE

• 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

READ-ME

• SRB_REL3.0_SHORTWAVE_MONTHLY (netCDF) - GEWEX Shortwave Monthly Readme file

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