Measurement : Shortwave narrowband total downwelling irradiance
The rate at which radiant energy, in narrow bands of wavelengths shorter than approximately 4 {mu}m, passes through a horizontal unit area in a downward direction.
Categories
Radiometric
Instruments
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- ARM Instruments
- External Instruments
- USDARAD : US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Radiation Monitoring Data
- Field Campaign Instruments
- AOD : Aerosol Optical Depth, derived from MFRSR/NIMFR
- RAD-AIR : Airborne Radiometers
- G-1 : Gulfstream
- MFRSR : Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
- NFOV : Narrow Field of View Zenith Radiometer
- SOAR : Shipboard Oceanographic and Atmospheric Radiation
- TCRSR : Thin Cloud Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
- OTTER : Twin Otter
Value-Added Products
- AOD : Aerosol Optical Depth, derived from MFRSR/NIMFR (Process)
- MFRSRAOD1MICH : MFRSR: derived total & aerosol optical depth from 1st Michalsky algorithm
- NIMFRAOD1MICH : NIMFR: derived total & aerosol optical depth from 1st Michalsky algorithm