Surface Solar Irradiance from ISCCP data

Ocean Biogeochemical Processes Group LBNL

Computation of surface solar irradiance on a global basis. Simply stated, no light => no ocean biology => boring marine geochemistry. We are charged with producing surface solar irradiance fields using combined satellite data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project. Results are temporally resolved every 3 hours and spatially resolved at 0.5x0.5 degrees latitude and longitude for the time period beginning July 1983 onwards. The data will be used to model ocean and terrestiral productivity.

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Irradiance Data Documentation dated Feburary 17 2000. See also documentation at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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DOWNLOAD access for digital versions of daily surface irradiance data from 1991 to 1993.

DOWNLOAD access for software to read irradiance data from 1991 to 1993.

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OCTS and SeaWiFS contemporaneous data sets

April 1997 MEAN dataApril 1997 mean and standard deviation of surface irradiance December 1997 MEAN dataDec 1997 mean surface irradiance and SeaWiFS chlorophyll

DOWNLOAD access for digital versions of surface irradiance data for APRIL 1997 and DECEMBER 1997.

Data from this project are archived at the Goddard Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).

References:

Bishop, J.K.B., W.B. Rossow and E.G. Dutton (1997) Surface Solar Irradiance from ISCCP 1983-1991. J. Geophys. Res. (Atmospheres), 102, 6883-6910.

Bishop, J.K.B. and W.B. Rossow. (1991) Spatial and temporal variability of globalsurface solar irradiance. J. Geophys. Res., 96 (C9), 16,839-16,858.

Mitchell, B.G., E. Brody, O. Holm-Hansen, C. McClain, J.K.B. Bishop, (1991) Light limitation of phytoplankton biomass and macronutrient utilization in the Southern Ocean. Linmol. & Oceanogr . 36(8) 1662-1677.

Support:This work is supported by NASA under the SeaWiFS Project.

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