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Title:

First WCRP Surface Radiation Budget Global Data Sets
Shortwave Radiation Parameters, March 1985 - December 1988

Source:

Langley DAAC User and Data Services Office
NASA Langley Research Center
Mail Stop 157B
Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001
tel: 804-864-8656

Description:

This CD-ROM contains version 1.1 Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) shortwave products for the period March 1985 through December 1988 as produced by the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP) SRB Satellite Data Analysis Center (SDAC).

SDAC uses two methods (known as the Pinker and Staylor algorithms) to estimate downward and net irradiances, surface albedo, downward direct/diffuse ratio, surface clould forcing, and daylight cloud fraction. In addition, various other radiation, cloud, meteorological and diagnostic parameters are provided to aid the user in understanding variations in the SRB parameters.

Most of the data files are in HDF format although there are some GIF format images for browsing.