Description

The data set contains daily average global fields of three longwave (LW) surfaceradiative parameters derived with the Quality-Check LW (QCLW) algorithm of theNASA World Climate Research Programme /Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment(WCRP/GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project.There are a total of three parameters in these files as follows:1. Surface Downward Longwave Flux (DLF), 2. Surface Net Longwave Flux (NLF), and3. Surface Clear Sky Downward Longwave Flux (CSDLF).These parameters were derived originally on a 3-hourly temporal resolution(i.e., a global instantaneous gridded field every 3 hours). The 3-hourly valuesare averaged into the daily values given in these files. The current version ofthe data sets is identified as Release 3.0. It covers a period of 24.5 years from July 1983 to December 2007.

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Resources and Documentation

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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

HOW-TO

• Program to read SRB Release QCLW Daily 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_QCLW_DAILY (netCDF) - GEWEX Quality-Check Longwave Daily-Average Data set Readme File

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