Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [Discussion]
The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) was implemented by the World Climate Research Programme (WRCP) starting observations with 9 stations in 1992, under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Currently, 59 BSRN stations submit their data to the WRCP. One of these stati...
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ftaemet:oai:repositorio.aemet.es:20.500.11765/9982 2024-06-23T07:55:19+00:00 Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [Discussion] García Cabrera, Rosa Delia Cuevas Agulló, Emilio Ramos López, Ramón Cachorro, Victoria E. Redondas, Alberto Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés 2018 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/9982 eng eng European Geosciences Union https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gi-2018-41 Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems Discussions. 2018 2193-0856 2193-0864 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/9982 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 2018 ftaemet https://doi.org/20.500.11765/998210.5194/gi-2018-41 2024-06-03T14:17:56Z The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) was implemented by the World Climate Research Programme (WRCP) starting observations with 9 stations in 1992, under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Currently, 59 BSRN stations submit their data to the WRCP. One of these stations is the Izaña station (Station: IZA, #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, 2373ma.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 (WMO, station #60018) and total column ozone from 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 program has benefited from ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic ARCIMÍS (Archivo Climatológico y Meteorológico Institucional - AEMET, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología) |
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The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) was implemented by the World Climate Research Programme (WRCP) starting observations with 9 stations in 1992, under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Currently, 59 BSRN stations submit their data to the WRCP. One of these stations is the Izaña station (Station: IZA, #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, 2373ma.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 (WMO, station #60018) and total column ozone from 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 program has benefited from ... |
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García Cabrera, Rosa Delia Cuevas Agulló, Emilio Ramos López, Ramón Cachorro, Victoria E. Redondas, Alberto Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés |
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García Cabrera, Rosa Delia Cuevas Agulló, Emilio Ramos López, Ramón Cachorro, Victoria E. Redondas, Alberto Moreno Ruiz, José Andrés |
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Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [Discussion] |
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Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [Discussion] |
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Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [Discussion] |
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Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [Discussion] |
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Description of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at the Izaña Observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [Discussion] |
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description of the baseline surface radiation network (bsrn) station at the izaña observatory (2009–2017): measurements and quality control/assurance procedures [discussion] |
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