Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN): structure and data description (1992–2017)
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Abstract. Small changes in the radiation budget at the earth's surface can lead to large climatological responses when persistent over time. With the increasing debate on anthropogenic influences on climatic processes during the 1980s the need for accurate radiometric measurements with higher temporal resolution was identified, and it was determined that the existing measurement networks did not have the resolution or accuracy required to meet this need. In 1988 the WMO therefore proposed the establishment of a new international Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN), which should collect and centrally archive high-quality ground-based radiation measurements in 1 min resolution. BSRN began its work in 1992 with 9 stations; currently (status 2018-01-01), the network comprises 59 stations (delivering data to the archive) and 9 candidates (stations recently accepted into the network with data forthcoming to the archive) distributed over all continents and oceanic environments. The BSRN database is the World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC). It is hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany, and now offers more than 10 300 months of data from the years 1992 to 2017. All data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880000 free of charge.
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- Authors
- Driemel, A., Augustine, J., Behrens, K., Colle, S., Cox, C., Cuevas-Agulló, E., Denn, F. M., Duprat, T., Fukuda, M., Grobe, H., Haeffelin, M., Hodges, G., Hyett, N., Ijima, O., Kallis, A., Knap, W., Kustov, V., Long, C. N., Longenecker, D., Lupi, A., Maturilli, M., Mimouni, M., Ntsangwane, L., Ogihara, H., Olano, X., Olefs, M., Omori, M., Passamani, L., Pereira, E. B., Schmithüsen, H., Schumacher, S., Sieger, R., Tamlyn, J., Vogt, R., Vuilleumier, L., Xia, X., Ohmura, A., & König-Langlo, G.
- Affiliations
- Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (DE)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
- Deutscher Wetterdienst (DE)
- Science Systems and Applications (United States) (US)
- Météo-France (FR)
- Japan Meteorological Agency (JP)
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (FR)
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
- Bureau of Meteorology (AU)
- Keskkonnaagentuur (EE)
- Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (NL)
- Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (RU)
- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (IT)
- Office National de la Météorologie (DZ)
- South African Weather Service (ZA)
- National Renewable Energy Centre (ES)
- Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (AT)
- Met Office (GB)
- University of Basel (CH)
- Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss (CH)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Driemel, Amelie
- ORCID
- Driemel, Amelie
- Augustine, John
- Cox, Christopher
- Cuevas-Agulló, Emilio
- Grobe, Hannes
- Haeffelin, Martial
- Kallis, Ain
- Knap, Wouter
- Long, Charles N.
- Lupi, Angelo
- Maturilli, Marion
- Mimouni, Mohamed
- Ntsangwane, Lucky
- Olano, Xabier
- Olefs, Marc
- Schmithüsen, Holger
- Schumacher, Stefanie
- Sieger, Rainer
- Vogt, Roland
- Vuilleumier, Laurent
- Xia, Xiangao
- Venue
- Earth System Science Data
- Publisher
- Copernicus GmbH
- Published
- 2018-08-21
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1491-1501
- ISSN
- 1866-3508 (ISSN-L)
- 1866-3516
- OpenAlex
- W2788689621
- Cited by
- 490
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- 19.02
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- Language
- en
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Calibration and Measurement Techniques
- Keywords
- Baseline Surface Radiation Network, surface radiation budget, high temporal resolution, Wmo, anthropogenic climate influence, radiation monitoring network
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