ISLSCP II Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Monthly Albedo, 1986-1990

Description

This data set, ISLSCP II Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Monthly Albedo, 1986-1990, contains both the original ERBE albedo data at 2.5 degree spatial resolution, and the International Land Surface Climatology Project Initative II (ISLSCP Initiative II) albedo product re-gridded to 1 degree resolution. The goals of the ERBE were (1) to understand the radiation balance between the Sun, Earth, atmosphere, and space and (2) to establish an accurate, long-term baseline data set for detection of climate changes. Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) data are fundamental to the development of realistic climate models and to the understanding of natural and anthropogenic perturbations of the climate system. As part of ERBE, measurements of broadband shortwave radiation reflected from the Earth-atmosphere system were obtained, from which top of atmosphere albedo values were calculated. In addition, values from scenes determined to be free of clouds were analyzed separately and clear-sky albedos were derived. For this study, only the clear-sky albedos are included. The ERBE data sets for ISLSCP Initiative II contain global, top of atmosphere, clear sky albedo data from January 1986 to February 1990.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Data set text file containing the file naming convention and data formats of the granules in this collection. https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/vegetation/erbe_albedo_monthly_xdeg/comp/0_erbe_albedo_readme.txt
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F957
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/islscp_ii/vegetation/erbe_albedo_monthly_xdeg/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ISLSCP_II/guides/erbe_albedo_monthly_xdeg.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/957
33 Data set documentation PDF. https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/vegetation/erbe_albedo_monthly_xdeg/comp/1_erbe_albedo_monthly_doc.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/957_1_fit.png
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=957
21 The THREDDS location for this Collection. https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalog/ornldaac/957/catalog.html

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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