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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DATA CITATION POLICY

• 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

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_QCLW_3HRLYMONTHLY - GEWEX Quality-Check Longwave Monthly Averaged 3-Hourly Readme File

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION

• Read Software Package - SRB_REL3.0_QCLW_3HRLYMONTHLY - Direct File Download (.zip)

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