Background

Approach

Parameters

Gallery

Domain

Global scale

Continental scale

Regional scale

Available Data

In progress

Collaboration

Acknowledgements

Photos

Contacts

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Global scale

Eleven years of 2.5 degree spatial resolution satellite data (ISCCP D1) at 3-hourly time scale have been processed, to derive the various parameters on global scale.  An eleven year average of monthly mean values of surface downward shortwave radiative fluxes (W/m*2) for South America, is shown in Figure 2.  A CD ROM has been produced, entitled:

University of Maryland Shortwave Radiation Budget
Daily and Monthly Data Set
July 1983-August 1994
D1 Product Version 1.0
June 2000

Monthly mean values are distributed via a University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Web site at:

http://atmos.umd.edu/~srb/pathfinder/webpath.htm