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Radiation and Clouds Data
This data set contains global Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) and a few TOA radiation budget parameters on a 1° x 1° spatial resolution. The data set contains several cloud parameters (monthly only) and meteorological parameters such as the monthly surface skin temperature, and the monthly total column ozone and water vapor burdens. All monthly parameters include files with a monthly mean value, a monthly standard deviation, and monthly minimum and maximum values.
Data Provider: Paul W. Stackhouse, Shashi K. Gupta
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The files have been compressed using the PKZip program. Each uncompressed file contains space-delimited ASCII text with 360 values per line and 180 lines of data (1 degree resolution). Each line is terminated by a newline character. The data are structured so that the upperleft corner of the first pixel is located at 90 North latitude and 180 West longitude. Each pixel represents a 1 by 1 degree area, with the pixel edges falling on whole degree boundaries.
The data is monthly data, average data for a whole month. It also contains the Standard Deviation, the Maximum, and the Minimum.
The files contain a variety of different data types, listed in the table below.
| File Abbrev. | Type of Data | Temporal Coverage |
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| cldamt | total cloud amount (%) | monthly |
| cldtopp | cloud-top pressure (mb) | monthly |
| cldtopt | cloud-top temperature (K) | monthly |
| cwv | column water vapor (gm/cm2) | monthly |
| ozone | column ozone (dobson units) | monthly |
| skint | surface skin temperature (K) | monthly |
| tau | cloud optical depth | monthly |
| water | cloud liquid water path (gm/m2) | monthly |
Related Pages:
ISLSCP Initiative II Home
General Data Overview
Radiation Data Overview
SRB Cloud Data
Revision Date: September 2, 2003