Dataset
Copernicus Climate Change Service: Brokered ESA Cloud CCI Surface Radiation Budget L3 data from the ATSR series, version 3.0
Abstract
This record comprises 17 years (1995-2012) of global surface radiation budget observations from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) series of instruments, flown on board the ESA Earth Observation satellites (ERS-2) and Envisat. The data is provided as monthly 0.5 x 0.5 degree, longitude-latitude averages containing bottom-of-atmosphere incoming, reflected and net solar radiation, downwelling, outgoing and net longwave radiation and total net surface radiation, along with the spatio-temporal standard deviation of each parameter.
This dataset is a re-gridded version of the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative version 3.0 cloud product (Cloud_cci) produced to meet the requirements for distribution through the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Full details of the dataset, include data-quality and validation information can be found via the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS).
Details
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| Access rules: |
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/c3s_brokered_esa_cci_data.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
ATSR-2 and Advanced-ATSR (AATSR) data acquired by ESA and archived by CEDA (third reprocessing (A)ATSR-multi mission product). Level-2 data processed by RAL Space for the ESA Cloud_cci project ( (A)ATSR cloud properties Essential Climate Variable product, version 3). Level-3 data produced by RAL Space for C3S ((A)ATSR cloud properties Thematic Climate Data Record, v3.0). |
| File Format: |
The data are in NetCDF format.
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) | Deployed on: Envisat |
| Along Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) | Deployed on: European Remote Sensing satellite 2 - ERS-2 |
Computation Element: 1
| Title | Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud (ORAC) |
| Abstract | Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud (ORAC) - more details on request |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
| Output Description | None |
- units: 1
- long_name: number of retrieval pixels in grid cell
- var_id: pixel_count
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- var_id: sdl
- long_name: surface downwelling longwave radiation
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- var_id: sis
- long_name: surface incomming solar radiation
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_net_downward_longwave_flux
- var_id: snl
- long_name: surface net longwave radiation
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_net_downward_shortwave_flux
- var_id: sns
- long_name: surface net solar radiation
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- var_id: sol
- long_name: surface outgoing longwave radiation
- units: W m-2
- var_id: srb_std
- standard_name: surface_net_downward_radiative_flux
- long_name: surface radiation budget
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- var_id: srs
- long_name: surface reflected solar radiation
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- long_name: latitude of grid-cell centre
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: longitude of grid-cell centre
Temporal Range
1995-06-01T00:00:00
2012-04-08T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |