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Radiative flux and heating rates derived from synergistic CloudSat-CALIPSO-MODIS retrievals (CCM-RAD)

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Abstract

This dataset contains radiative data retrievals based on observations from the A-train of satellites. The offline version of the ECMWF radiative transfer scheme (ecRad) has been used to estimate the profiles of broadband radiative fluxes and heating rates at the 1km along-track and 60m vertical resolution of the CCM-CAP (attached to this dataset) product; the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes have been compared to CERES broadband flux measurements along the CloudSat track for a simple radiative closure assessment.

The dataset covers the period that include observations from CloudSat, CALIPSO and MODIS together with the DARDAR cloud classification. Files each include a single granule of retrievals together with errors and metadata of retrieval quality.

Citable as:  [ PROVISIONAL ] (9999): Radiative flux and heating rates derived from synergistic CloudSat-CALIPSO-MODIS retrievals (CCM-RAD). NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6bdd4ff1d50b455cb89b70ad074cb27d

Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Radiation, Cloud, Aerosol

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Data lineage:

CCM-RAD is derived from the CCM-CAP retrieval product to facilitate a simple radiative closure assessment against CERES measurements.

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Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2006-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2011-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
82.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
82.0000°