Bleyer, Andrea

Cohrs, Wolfgang

König-Langlo, Gert

Sieger, Rainer

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RD Climate SciencesThe World Radiation Monitoring Centerat the Alfred-Wegener-InstitutGert König-Langlo, Rainer Sieger, Wolfgang Cohrs, Andrea Bleyer Active BSRN-stations and candidates in 2010Objectives of the WRMCIn 1992, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) initiated theBaseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) and its central archive calledWorld Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC).The objective of the WRMC is to provide observations of the best possiblequality, for short and long-wave surface radiation fluxes. The uniform andconsistent measurements throughout the BSRN network are used to:1. monitor the background short and long-wave radiative components and their changes with the best methods currently available,2. provide data for the validation and evaluation of satellite-based estimates of the surface radiative fluxes and3. produce high-quality observational data for comparisons with climate model (GCM) calculations and for the development of local regionally representative radiation climatologies. Web based data retrieval via PANGAEA Data visualization via the PANGAEA tool PanPlot  (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.330147)Services of the WRMCSince 2008, AWI hosts the WRMC and offers the following services :1. FTP Server, ftp.bsrn.awi.de for incoming and outgoing BSRN data.2. Homepage, http://www.bsrn.awi.de for the WRMC-BSRN.3. Developing a quality management system for the WRMC.4. Full PANGAEA service for any dataset, which is detailed as follows:• Offering a Google-like interface for searching BSRN datasets.• Presenting well-defined metadata for any BSRN dataset.• Presenting the measurements in different formats.• Offering software, e.g. “PanPlot” and “BSRN-Toolbox” (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.744019) for visualizing and analyzing any PANGAEA derived BSRN dataset.• Making any dataset citable by applying digital object identifiers (doi).• Guaranteeing long-term availability of all datasets.• Following the “Berlin Declaration on Open Data Access”.Available datasetsThe typical average interval for radiation data is 1 minute. All data can beretrieved interactively by any registered scientist from a ftp-server and thePublishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data PANGAEA(http://www.pangaea.de/search?q=BSRN)The parameters within the archive files are given below:Global, Diffuse, Direct, Long-wave down 51 stations 5835 monthsReflex, Long-wave up 9 stations 1521 monthsUV 12 stations 1456 monthsSynoptic observations 9 stations 1309 monthsUpper air soundings 29 stations 3038 monthsTotal ozone 9 stations 1218 monthsAerosol optical depths (under construction) 14 stationsCeilometer data 3 stations 501 monthsRadiation measurements from tower 11 stations 1926 months

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