Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-10N (Nonscanner-only) Wide Field of View (WFOV) Shape Factor (SF) Radiant Flux and Albedo Edition 2 in Native Format

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ERBE_S10N_WFOV_SF_Edition2 is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-10N (Non-scanner-only) Wide Field of View (WFOV) Shape Factor (SF) Radiant Flux and Albedo Edition 2 in Native Format data product. Data collection for this product is complete. This product resulted from the reprocessed ERBE S10N_WFOV ERBS Edition2 data product. It contains temporally and spatially averaged shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) fluxes derived from one month of Earth Radiation Budget Experiment non-scanning wide field-of-view instruments aboard the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS). Instantaneous Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) fluxes from the ERBE/ERBS S7 product were spatially averaged on a 5° and 10° equal-angle grid using numerical filter and shape factor techniques, respectively. ERBE scanner-independent temporal interpolation algorithms were applied to produce daily, monthly-hourly, and monthly mean fluxes from the instantaneous gridded data. The S10N_WFOV files contain both temporally averaged and instantaneous gridded mean values of TOA total-sky LW flux, total-sky SW flux, and total-sky albedo for each 5° and 10° region observed during the month. The major differences between Edition2 and the original release were in the monthly mean fluxes with (1) the incorporation of stochastic quality assurance algorithms for filtering out monthly-mean data with excessive temporal sample errors and (2) a self-consistent usage of the WFOV data in selecting scene-dependent directional models for temporal interpolation of the ERBE WFOV instantaneous gridded data.

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21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FERBE%2FS10N_WFOV_SF_EDITION2_NAT_L3
21 ASDC Data and Information for ERBE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/ERBE
21 DOI data set landing page for ERBE_S10N_WFOV_SF_Edition2 https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S10N_WFOV_SF_EDITION2_NAT_L3
57 Read Software Package - ERBE_S10N_Edition2_Read Document - Direct File Download (.zip) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/erbe_s10n_edition2_read.zip
21 Tools for storage/retrieval of arbitrary size bytes from 32 bit words - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/gbytes.c
33 ERBE Langley ASDC Project Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_project.pdf
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Note for S-10N/S-4N/S-4GN Product https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s10n_wfv_nf_nat_dmonotice1.txt
33 Quality Summary: ERBE S10N_WFOV ERBS Edition 2 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/quality_summaries/s10n_wfov/erbe_s10n_wfov_nf_sf_erbs_edition2.pdf
21 ASDC Data and Information for GEWEX-RFA https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/GEWEX-RFA
21 Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: "A Burning Question" By Annette Varani https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/a-burning-question
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: NASA Earth Observatory Article https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/QuestionConvection
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for ERBE_S10N_WFOV_SF_Edition2 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ERBE/S10N/WFOV_SF_Edition2/
21 Earthdata Search for ERBE_S10N_WFOV_SF_Edition2 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000801-LARC_ASDC
21 Readme to work with FORTRAN - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/io.c
21 Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: "Absorption of Solar Radiation by Clouds: Observations versus Models" https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/absorption-of-solar-radiation-by-clouds-observations-versus-models
33 ERBE Earth Radiant Fluxes and Albedo for Month Nonscanner (S-10N) Langley ASDC Data Set Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_s10n.pdf
21 ERBE S-10N WFOV Edition2 Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s10n_wfov_nf_edition2.txt
33 ERBE Overview Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/erbe_overview.pdf
33 Overview of view hdf: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for HDF Files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tools/view_hdf.pdf
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Clouds in the Balance https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CloudsInBalance

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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