BSRN snapshot 2015-09, links to zip archives

• Main Authors: König-Langlo, Gert, Driemel, Amelie, Raffel, Bonnie, Sieger, Rainer
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Alaska; USA; ALE; Alert; Algeria; Alice Springs; Antarctica; ASP; Australia; Austria; BAR; Barrow; Baseline Surface Radiation Network; BER; Bermuda; BIL; Billings; BON; Bondville; BOS; BOU; Boulder; Brasilia; Brasilia City; Distrito Federal; Brazil; BRB; BSRN; CAB; Cabauw; CAM; Camborne; Canada; CAR; Carpentras; Cener; Chesapeake Light; Chief scientist(s); China; CLH; CNR; COC; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cocos Island; Colorado; United States of America; Concordia Station; Dome C; Cosmonaut Sea; Alfred Wegener Institute; Antarc*; Cosmonaut sea
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.852720; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.852720

The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) and its central archive - the World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) - was created in 1992. It is a project of the Data Assimilation Panel from the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) under the umbrella of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and as such is aimed at detecting important changes in the Earth's radiation field at the Earth's surface which may be related to climate changes. The data are of primary importance in supporting the validation and confirmation of satellite and computer model estimates of these quantities. At a small number of stations in contrasting climatic zones, covering a latitude range from 80°N to 90°S, solar and atmospheric radiation is measured with instruments of the highest available accuracy and with high time resolution (1 to 3 minutes). Since 2008 the WRMC is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany (http://www.bsrn.awi.de/).