Clear-Sky Shortwave Downward Flux at the Earth's Surface: Ground-Based Data vs. Satellite-Based Data.
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER 2019;
224:247-260. [PMID:
33505085 PMCID:
PMC7837425 DOI:
10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.11.015]
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Abstract
The radiative flux data and other meteorological data in the BSRN archive start from 1992, but the RadFlux data, the clear-sky radiative fluxes at the BSRN sites derived through regression analyses of actually observed clear-sky fluxes, did not come into existence until the early 2000s, and at first, they were limited to the 7 NOAA SURFRAD and 4 DOE ARM sites, a subset of the BSRN sites. Recently, the RadFlux algorithm was applied more extensively to the BSRN sites for the production of clear-sky ground-based fluxes. At the time of this writing, there are 7119 site-months of clear-sky fluxes at 42 BSRN sites spanning the time from 1992 to late 2017. These data provide an unprecedented opportunity to validate the satellite-based clear-sky fluxes. In this paper, the GEWEX SRB GSW(V3.0) shortwave downward fluxes spanning 24.5 years from 1983-07 to 2007-12, the CERES SYN1deg(Ed4A) and EBAF(Ed4.0) shortwave fluxes spanning 2000-03 to mid-2017 are compared with their RadFlux counterparts on the hourly, 3-hourly, daily and monthly time scales. All the three datasets show reasonable agreement with their ground-based counterparts. Comparison of the satellite-based surface shortwave clear-sky radiative fluxes to the BSRN RadFlux analysis shows negative biases. Further analysis shows that the satellite-based atmosphere contains greater aerosol optical paths as well as more precipitable water than RadFlux analysis estimates.
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