Description
The data set contains monthly average/3-hourly (also calleddiurnally-resolved monthly average or just 'diurnal' for brevity) global fieldsof 11 shortwave (SW) surface radiative parameters derived with the Shortwavealgorithm of the NASA World Climate Research Programme /Global Energy andWater-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(i.e., a global instantaneous gridded field every 3 hours), at UT hours 00, 03,06, 09, 12, 15, 18, and 21 for every day of the month. The 3-hourly values wereused to compute monthly averages separately for each of the 8 UT hours. Thecurrent version of the data is identified as Release 3.0.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| View this dataset's data citation policy | HTML | How to cite ASDC data | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | ASDC Direct Data Download for SRB_REL3.0_SW_3HRLY_MONTHLY_UTC_NC_1 | Open resource |
| View this dataset's read me document | HTML | SRB_REL3.0_SHORTWAVE_3HRLYMONTHLY (netCDF) - GEWEX Shortwave 3-hourly/monthly Readme file | Open resource |
| View this dataset's how-to documentation | HTML | Program to read SRB Release 3 Short Wave 3 Hourly Monthly in netCDF - Direct File Download (.txt) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ASDC Data and Information for SRB | Open resource |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | DOI data set landing page for SRB_REL3.0_SW_3HRLY_MONTHLY_UTC_NC_1 | Open resource |
| View a micro article on this dataset | HTML | 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 | Open resource |
| View a micro article on this dataset | HTML | Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: "Absorption of Solar Radiation by Clouds: Observations versus Models" | Open resource |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | OPeNDAP data access for SRB_REL3.0_SW_3HRLY_MONTHLY_UTC_NC_1 | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Earthdata Search for SRB_REL3.0_SW_3HRLY_MONTHLY_UTC_NC_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | Department of Energy (DOE) National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | 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 | Open resource |