Available Data
Surface and top of the atmosphere short-wave radiative
fluxes were produced from the following satellite observations:
- ISCCP DX from METEOSAT for 1986 and 1990 - 1992
- ISCCP DX from GOES for 1990-1992
- ISCCP DX from GMS for 1992
To facilitate comparison with results obtained at lower spatial resolution and
to obtain global fields of radiative fluxes, observations from ISCCP D1 were also processed. Surface and top of the atmosphere radiative fluxes are available
for the following time period:
Initially, eleven
years of 2.5 degree spatial resolution satellite data (ISCCP D1) at 3-hourly
time scale have been processed for the period July 1983-December 1994;
the daily and monthly means of selected radiative fluxes have been placed
on a CD ROM entitled:
University of Maryland
Short-wave Radiation Budget
Daily and Monthly Data Set
July 1983-August 1994
D1 Product Version 1.0
June 2000
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The data from this CD ROM is able to be accessed from here.
Subsequently,
ISCCP D1 data for the period January 1995 to December 1998 have been processed.
These are made available from here
Questions regarding these data should be sent to: srb@atmos.umd.edu
For details on what parameters are availble at the different spatial and temporal scales, go
to
Data Access.
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