Radiation Fluxes for CMIP5 from CERES
Topics
- Access
- Description
- Parameters
- Coverage, spatial and temporal resolution
- Data quality
- Contact person
- References
- Data citation
Access
RESTRICTED:This link to the data set is only available for a restricted user group. The data set is only accessible in CEN/MPI net or accessible from external nets with a customer account. Please contact ICDC if you would like to access this data from outside the network.
- View CERES CMIP data at LAS
- Access CERES CMIP data via OPeNDAP
- Data access via file system: /data/icdc/atmosphere/ceres_cmip5
Description
This is Version Ed2.7 of the CERES-EBAF Products. It 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 ICDC's CERES webpage, on NASA's CERES Homepage and in the literature listed in the references.
Last update of data set at ICDC: Februar 04, 2014
Parameters
Name | Unit | Acronym |
---|---|---|
TOA incident shortwave radiation | W/m² | rsdt |
TOA outgoing shortwave radiation, all-sky | W/m² | rsut |
TOA outgoing shortwave radiation, clearsky | W/m² | rsutcs |
TOA outgoing longwave radiation, all-sky | W/m² | rlut |
TOA outgoing longwave radiation, clearsky | W/m² | rlutcs |
Surface shortwave downwelling radiation, all-sky | W/m² | rsds |
Surface shortwave downwelling radiation, clearsky | W/m² | rsdscs |
Surface shortwave upwelling radiation, all-sky | W/m² | rsus |
Surface shortwave upwelling radiation, clear-sky | W/m² | rsuscs |
Surface longwave downwelling radiation, all-sky | W/m² | rlds |
Surface longwave downwelling radiation, clearsky | W/m² | rldscs |
Surface longwave upwelling radiation, all-sky | W/m² | rlus |
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
Data quality
The offered data sets do not contain uncertainty estimates. A number of documents exist which summarize uncertainties and uncertainty sources as well as the results of the evaluation procedures (see references).
Contact
NASA
CERES staff
Help Desk
email: ceres-help (at) lists.nasa.govPlease email comments for data set improvement to: HQ-CLIMATE-OBS (at) mail.nasa.gov
Seiji Kato
NASA CERES-Staff
email: seiji.kato (at) nasa.govNorman Loeb
NASA CERES-Staff
email: norman.g.loeb (at) nasa.govStefan Kern
ICDC / CEN / University of Hamburg
E-Mail: stefan.kern"AT"uni-hamburg.de
References
- NASA's CERES Homepage, https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/
- CERES Online Documentation, https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation/
- CERES EBAF Ed2.7 Data Quality Summary (August 2013) (pdf, not barrier free)
- CERES EBAF-Surface Ed2.7 Data Quality Summary (June 2013) (pdf, not barrier free)
- Technical Note TOA Shortwave Downwelling for CMIP5 (pdf, not barrier free)
- Technical Note TOA data sets for CMIP5 (pdf, not barrier free)
- Technical Note Surface data sets for CMIP5 (pdf, not barrier free)
- Loeb, N. G., et al., 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 , https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2637.1
- Kato, S., et al., 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, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00436.1
Data citation
Please cite the data as follows:
CERES EBAF_Ed2.7
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.
and with the following acknowledgments:
Thanks to ICDC, CEN, University of Hamburg for data support.