Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) is a project of the
World Climate Research Programme
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is an international programme that helps to coordinate global climate research. The WCRP was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Inter ...
(WCRP) and the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (
GEWEX The Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project (abbreviated GEWEX, formerly named the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment from 1990 to 2012) is an international research project and a core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).
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) and as such is aimed detecting important changes in the Earth's radiation field at the Earth's surface which may be related to climate changes. The central archive of the BSRN is the
World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) which was initiated by
Atsumu Ohmura
is a Japanese climatologist, known for his discovery and contributions to the theory of global dimming.
Ohmura was born in the Bunkyō ward of Tokyo in 1942. In 1965 he graduated with a B.Sc. from the University of Tokyo and in 1969 received an ...
in 1992 and operated at
ETH
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, budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021)
, rector = Günther Dissertori
, president = Joël Mesot
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until 2007. Since 2008 the WRMC is operated by the
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: ''Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung'') is located in Bremerhaven, Germany, and a member of the Helmholtz Association o ...
(AWI), Germany.
Objectives
* To monitor the background (least influenced by immediate human activities which are regionally concentrated) shortwave and longwave radiative components and their changes with the best methods currently available.
* To provide data for the calibration of satellite-based estimates of the surface radiative fluxes.
* To produce high quality observational data to be used for validating the theoretical computations of radiative fluxes by models.
See also
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Global dimming
Global dimming is the reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface that has been observed since systematic measurements began in the 1950s. The effect varies by location, but worldwide it has been estimated to be of ...
External links
Baseline Surface Radiation NetworkBSRN information
Climatological research
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