Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures

The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) was implemented by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) starting observations with nine stations in 1992, under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Currently, 59 BSRN stations submit their data to the WCRP. One of these st...

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Published in:Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
Main Authors: García Cabrera, Rosa Delia, Cuevas Agulló, Emilio, Ramos López, Ramón, Cachorro, Victoria E., Redondas, Alberto, Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés
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Published: European Geosciences Union 2019
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spelling ftaemet:oai:repositorio.aemet.es:20.500.11765/10266 2024-06-23T07:55:20+00:00 Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures García Cabrera, Rosa Delia Cuevas Agulló, Emilio Ramos López, Ramón Cachorro, Victoria E. Redondas, Alberto Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés 2019 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/10266 eng eng European Geosciences Union https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gi-8-77-2019 Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems. 2019, 8(1), p. 77-96 2193-0856 2193-0864 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/10266 Licencia CC: Reconocimiento CC BY info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Solar radiation Radiation measurements Baseline Surface Radiation Network Quality control info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftaemet https://doi.org/20.500.11765/1026610.5194/gi-8-77-2019 2024-06-03T14:17:56Z The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) was implemented by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) starting observations with nine stations in 1992, under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Currently, 59 BSRN stations submit their data to the WCRP. One of these stations is the Izaña station (station IZA, no. 61) that enrolled in this network in 2009. This is a high-mountain station located in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain, at 28.3∘ N, 16.5∘ W; 2373 m a.s.l.) and is a representative site of the subtropical North Atlantic free troposphere. It contributes with basic-BSRN radiation measurements, such as global shortwave radiation (SWD), direct radiation (DIR), diffuse radiation (DIF) and longwave downward radiation (LWD), and extended-BSRN measurements, including ultraviolet ranges (UV-A and UV-B), shortwave upward radiation (SWU) and longwave upward radiation (LWU), and other ancillary measurements, such as vertical profiles of temperature, humidity and wind obtained from radiosonde profiles (WMO station no. 60018) and total column ozone from the Brewer spectrophotometer. The IZA measurements present high-quality standards since more than 98 % of the data are within the limits recommended by the BSRN. There is an excellent agreement in the comparison between SWD, DIR and DIF (instantaneous and daily) measurements with simulations obtained with the LibRadtran radiative transfer model. The root mean square error (RMSE) for SWD is 2.28 % for instantaneous values and 1.58 % for daily values, while the RMSE for DIR is 2.00 % for instantaneous values and 2.07 % for daily values. IZA is a unique station that provides very accurate solar radiation data in very contrasting scenarios: most of the time under pristine sky conditions and periodically under the effects of the Saharan air layer characterized by a high content of mineral dust. A detailed description of the BSRN program at IZA, including quality control and quality assurance activities, is given in this work. The IZA BSRN ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic ARCIMÍS (Archivo Climatológico y Meteorológico Institucional - AEMET, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología) Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems 8 1 77 96
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topic Solar radiation
Radiation measurements
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
Quality control
spellingShingle Solar radiation
Radiation measurements
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
Quality control
García Cabrera, Rosa Delia
Cuevas Agulló, Emilio
Ramos López, Ramón
Cachorro, Victoria E.
Redondas, Alberto
Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés
Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures
topic_facet Solar radiation
Radiation measurements
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
Quality control
description The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) was implemented by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) starting observations with nine stations in 1992, under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Currently, 59 BSRN stations submit their data to the WCRP. One of these stations is the Izaña station (station IZA, no. 61) that enrolled in this network in 2009. This is a high-mountain station located in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain, at 28.3∘ N, 16.5∘ W; 2373 m a.s.l.) and is a representative site of the subtropical North Atlantic free troposphere. It contributes with basic-BSRN radiation measurements, such as global shortwave radiation (SWD), direct radiation (DIR), diffuse radiation (DIF) and longwave downward radiation (LWD), and extended-BSRN measurements, including ultraviolet ranges (UV-A and UV-B), shortwave upward radiation (SWU) and longwave upward radiation (LWU), and other ancillary measurements, such as vertical profiles of temperature, humidity and wind obtained from radiosonde profiles (WMO station no. 60018) and total column ozone from the Brewer spectrophotometer. The IZA measurements present high-quality standards since more than 98 % of the data are within the limits recommended by the BSRN. There is an excellent agreement in the comparison between SWD, DIR and DIF (instantaneous and daily) measurements with simulations obtained with the LibRadtran radiative transfer model. The root mean square error (RMSE) for SWD is 2.28 % for instantaneous values and 1.58 % for daily values, while the RMSE for DIR is 2.00 % for instantaneous values and 2.07 % for daily values. IZA is a unique station that provides very accurate solar radiation data in very contrasting scenarios: most of the time under pristine sky conditions and periodically under the effects of the Saharan air layer characterized by a high content of mineral dust. A detailed description of the BSRN program at IZA, including quality control and quality assurance activities, is given in this work. The IZA BSRN ...
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author García Cabrera, Rosa Delia
Cuevas Agulló, Emilio
Ramos López, Ramón
Cachorro, Victoria E.
Redondas, Alberto
Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés
author_facet García Cabrera, Rosa Delia
Cuevas Agulló, Emilio
Ramos López, Ramón
Cachorro, Victoria E.
Redondas, Alberto
Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés
author_sort García Cabrera, Rosa Delia
title Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures
title_short Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures
title_full Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures
title_fullStr Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures
title_full_unstemmed Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures
title_sort description of the baseline surface radiation network (bsrn) station at the izaña observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures
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