Reconstructions of the radiation fluxes at top of atmosphere and net surface energy flux in the period 1985-2015 from DEEP-C project

How to cite this Dataset

Liu, Chunlei and Allan, Richard (2017): Reconstructions of the radiation fluxes at top of atmosphere and net surface energy flux in the period 1985-2015 from DEEP-C project. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.111

Description

In order to study which mechanisms explain the reduced global surface warming rate since around 2000, and where the excess energy is due to rising greenhouse gas, the radiation fluxes (OLR, ASR and NET) at the top of atmosphere (TOA) prior to the CERES period are reconstructed using satellite observations, atmospheric reanalysis (ERA-Interim) and AMIP5 model simulations. The new approach using the mass-corrected atmospheric energy divergencies (transports) from ERA-Interim is employed to estimate the net surface energy fluxes.

Resource Type:

Dataset

Creators:

Liu, Chunlei

and Allan, Richard

Rights-holders:

University of Reading

Data Publisher:

University of Reading

Publication Year:

2017

Data last accessed:

17 May 2025

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.111

Metadata Record URL:

https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/111

Organisational units:

Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)
Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > Environmental Systems Science Centre
Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > NCAS
Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > Department of Meteorology

Participating Organisations:

University of Reading, Met Office, National Oceanography Centre

Keywords:

top of atmosphere radiation fluxes, net surface energy flux

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Data Availability:

OPEN

Additional details

Project Name:	Diagnosing Earth's Energy Pathways in the Climate system (DEEP-C)
Funders:	Natural Environment Research Council (NE/K005480/1)
Resource Language:	English
Collection period:	From 1 January 1985 To 31 December 2015
Temporal coverage:	From 1 January 1985 To 31 December 2015
Geographic coverage:	global
Data collection method:	See publication references.
Data processing and preparation activities:	All files are in netcdf format. The downward net fluxes are defined as positive. The TOA radiation fluxes are from Jan 1985 to Dec 2015. The surface energy flux is the net energy flux from Jan 1985 to Dec 2015. Geodetic weighting can be found at https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/science_information.php?page=GeodeticWeights. Fmass_v03.0_R.nc and Fmass_v03.0_R_GEOD.nc: the excess/deficit land surface fluxes are redistributed to the oceans zonally (using normal distribution weight in latitude direction). Fmass_v03.0_R_intermediate.nc: the excess/deficit land surface fluxes are redistributed to the hemispheric oceans evenly.
Depositing User:	Chunlei Liu
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2017 12:53
Last Modified:	29 Jul 2023 04:18