ERBE and GEBA Short-Wave monthly mean surface radiance comparisons
Abstract
Using the NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), downward short wave surface radiance measurements were processed for the year 1986. In this process, a new table lookup method was used for aerosols retrievals as well as MOA product based on MERRA database. New SSF product based on Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) was used for cloud property retrievals. In addition, a climatology dataset for surface albedo map retrievals was incorporated in this processing. ERBE surface radiances were produced for months April, July, October, and December of 1986. To validate this product, we use the Global Energy Balance Archive (GEBA) dataset for the same months. GEBA database stores energy flux monthly means that have been measured at 1500 stations at the earth's surface. In this work, comparisons of monthly short wave radiance averages at the surface between ERBE and GEBA datasets are presented. Preliminary results show a good agreement between both datasets.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012AGUFM.A33H0237F
- Keywords:
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- 0305 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE / Aerosols and particles;
- 0321 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE / Cloud/radiation interaction;
- 0360 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE / Radiation: transmission and scattering;
- 3359 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES / Radiative processes