Baseline Surface Radiation Network

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 re...

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Published inEarth system science data Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 1491 - 2981
Main Authors Driemel, Amelie, Augustine, John, Behrens, Klaus, Colle, Sergio, Cox, Christopher, Cuevas-Agullo, Emilio, Denn, Fred M, Duprat, Thierry, Fukuda, Masato, Grobe, Hannes, Haeffelin, Martial, Hodges, Gary, Hyett, Nicole, Ijima, Osamu, Kallis, Ain, Knap, Wouter, Kustov, Vasilii, Long, Charles N, Longenecker, David, Lupi, Angelo, Maturilli, Marion, Mimouni, Mohamed, Ntsangwane, Lucky, Ogihara, Hiroyuki, Olano, Xabier, Olefs, Marc, Omori, Masao, Passamani, Lance, Pereira, Enio Bueno, Schmithusen, Holger, Schumacher, Stefanie, Sieger, Rainer, Tamlyn, Jonathan, Vogt, Roland, Vuilleumier, Laurent, Xia, Xiangao, Ohmura, Atsumu, Konig-Langlo, Gert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Copernicus GmbH 21.08.2018
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Electric waves
Electromagnetic radiation
Electromagnetic waves
Environmental aspects
Measurement
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Summary: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
ISSN:1866-3508