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CERES Radiation Fluxes for CMIP5

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This data set is only available for a restricted user group, please contact us if you want to access these data.

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Data access via file system: /data/icdc/atmosphere/ceres_cmip5

 

Description

This is a subset o the CERES data set which has been prepared such that it can be easily compared to CMIP5 Model runs. More information about CERES data is given on our CERES webpage, on the respective NASA webpage and in the references.

This is Version Ed2.7 of the CERES-EBAF Products, downloaded Februar 04, 2014.

 

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Parameters

Name Unit Acronym
TOA incident shortwave radiation W/m^2 rsdt
TOA outgoing shortwave radiation, all-sky W/m^2 rsut
TOA outgoing shortwave radiation, clearsky W/m^2 rsutcs
TOA outgoing longwave radiation, all-sky W/m^2 rlut
TOA outgoing longwave radiation, clearsky W/m^2 rlutcs
Surface shortwave downwelling radiation, all-sky W/m^2 rsds
Surface shortwave downwelling radiation, clearsky W/m^2 rsdscs
Surface shortwave upwelling radiation, all-sky W/m^2 rsus
Surface shortwave upwelling radiation, clear-sky W/m^2 rsuscs
Surface longwave downwelling radiation, all-sky W/m^2 rlds
Surface longwave downwelling radiation, clearsky W/m^2 rldscs
Surface longwave upwelling radiation, all-sky W/m^2 rlus
     

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Coverage, spatial and temporal resolution

Period and temporal resolution: 

  • 03/2000 to 03/2013 (surface), to 06/2013 (TOA)
  • Monthly

Coverage and spatial resolution:

  • Global
  • Spatial resolution: 1° x 1°
  • Geographic longitude: 180°W to 180°E
  • Geographic latitude: 90°S to 90°N
  • Dimension: 360 columns x 180 rows
  • Altitude: following terrain for "surface", about 20 km above the Earth's reference ellipsoid for "TOA"

Format:

  • NetCDF

 

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Data quality

The offered data sets do not contain uncertainty estimates.

But a number of documents exist which summarize uncertainties and uncertainty sources as well as the results of the evaluation procedures: --> References

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Contact

NASA
CERES staff
Help Desk
email: ceres-help (at) lists.nasa.gov

Please email comments for data set improvement to: HQ-CLIMATE-OBS (at) mail.nasa.gov

Seiji Kato
NASA CERES-Staff
email: seiji.kato (at) nasa.gov

Norman Loeb
NASA CERES-Staff
email: norman.g.loeb (at) nasa.gov

Stefan Kern
ICDC / CEN / University of Hamburg
email: stefan.kern (at) uni-hamburg.de

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References

Data citation

Please refer to 

CERES EBAF_Ed2.7" and provide a reference to the following paper when you publish scientific results with the data:

For EBAF-TOA:

Loeb, N. G., B. A. Wielicki, D. R. Doelling, G. L. Smith, D. F. Keyes, S. Kato, N. Manalo-Smith, and T. Wong, 2009: Toward Optimal Closure of the Earth's Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation Budget, Journal of Climate, 22(3), 748-766, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2637.1

For EBAF-Surface:

Kato, S., N. G. Loeb, F. G. Rose, D. R. Doelling, D. A. Rutan, T. E. Caldwell, L. Yu, and R. A. Weller, 2013: Surface irradiances consistent with CERES-derived top-of-atmosphere shortwave and longwave irradiances. Journal of Climate, 26, 2719-2740, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00436.1

Please acknowledge also the source of your data download as: Integrated Climate Data Centre (ICDC), CliSAP/KlimaCampus, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, http://icdc.cen.uni-hamburg.de

 

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