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

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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6663-452X and Allan, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3205-3572
Rights-holders:	University of Reading
Data Publisher:	University of Reading
Publication Year:	2017
Data last accessed:	19 March 2023
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
Additional details 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: 07 Jun 2022 13:15