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Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB): Solar and thermal radiation Data
The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument makes accurate measurements of the Earth Radiation Budget. It was specifically designed to be mounted on a geostationary satellite and was carried onboard the Meteosat Second Generation satellite operated by European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The first GERB instrument, GERB-2, was onboard Meteosat Second Generation satellite, MSG-1, and began transmitting data on 12th December 2002. GERB-1 was launched onboard MSG-2 on 21st December 2005. Future GERB sensors units are planned for MSG-3 and MSG-4.
This dataset collection contains the incident and reflected solar radiation together with thermal radiation emitted by the Earth's atmosphere. The amount of solar radiation absorbed is the difference between the the incoming and reflected solar radiation and is the energy source of the Earth-atmosphere system. The thermal radiation emitted by the atmosphere is the only sink of energy so, therefore, the budget is the difference between the two. Seasonal changes in the ERB are mainly due to changes in incoming solar radiation but there is a large amount of variability on timescales of hours to days, mainly due to clouds. The global coverage and sampling frequency required for accurate climate models requires that ERB measurements are made from satellites.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2002-12-10T02:34:10
- Date (Creation)
- 2002-12-10T02:34:10
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / d8a5e58e59eb31620082dc4fd10158e2
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Update scope
- series Series
- Keywords
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- GERB
- solar
- thermal
- radiation
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2004-03-28T00:00:00
- End date
- 2013-01-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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GERB Mission webpage at Imperial College
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GERB website at RAL
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GERB Team website at Imperial College
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BADC Doc: GERB List of References
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Temporal Coverage
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L2 ARG Edition 1 Validation report(including G2 SWupdate)
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GERB L1.5 NARG
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PROCESSING and ACCURACY summary: GERB L2 Edition 1
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GERB DATA QUALITY SUMMARY: GERB L2 Edition 1 products
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RMIB GERB Products User Guide
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GGSPS Products User Guide
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- Hierarchy level
- series Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- d8a5e58e59eb31620082dc4fd10158e2 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:26:28
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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