World Radiation Monitoring Center
Encyclopedia
The World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) is the central archive of all Baseline Surface Radiation Network
measurements. In 1992 the WRMC was founded at ETH
Zurich. Since 2008-07-01 the WRMC is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute. Data were transferred to AWI from the original ftp-site at ETH
Zurich until about 2008-03-01. More recent data were submitted directly to AWI were all data are archived in the ftp-server [ftp://ftp.bsrn.awi.de/ ftp://ftp.bsrn.awi.de/]. Additionally, data are available via PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
. For more information see: http://www.bsrn.awi.de/.
The data within the WRMC are read account restricted. Only persons who follow the BSRN data release guidelines are allowed to use the data. Read accounts for both - PANGAEA and ftp access - can be obtained from the WRMC for free.
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
Baseline Surface Radiation Network is a project of the World Climate Research Programme and the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment 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...
measurements. In 1992 the WRMC was founded at ETH
Eth
Eth is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese , and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. The capital eth resembles a D with a line through the vertical stroke...
Zurich. Since 2008-07-01 the WRMC is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute. Data were transferred to AWI from the original ftp-site at ETH
Eth
Eth is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese , and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. The capital eth resembles a D with a line through the vertical stroke...
Zurich until about 2008-03-01. More recent data were submitted directly to AWI were all data are archived in the ftp-server [ftp://ftp.bsrn.awi.de/ ftp://ftp.bsrn.awi.de/]. Additionally, data are available via PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
PANGAEA (data library)
PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science is a digital data library and a data publisher for earth system science. Data can be georeferenced in time and space ....
. For more information see: http://www.bsrn.awi.de/.
The data within the WRMC are read account restricted. Only persons who follow the BSRN data release guidelines are allowed to use the data. Read accounts for both - PANGAEA and ftp access - can be obtained from the WRMC for free.
External links
- The WRMC at AWI:
- Homepage: http://bsrn.awi.de
- Data status: http://www.pangaea.de/PHP/BSRN_Status.php
- Data retrival via PANGAEA: http://www.bsrn.awi.de/en/data/data_retrieval_via_pangaea/
- Data retrival via ftp: http://www.bsrn.awi.de/en/data/data_retrieval_via_ftp/
- Tools
- PanPlot description: http://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PanPlot
- BSRN Toolbox description: http://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/BSRN_Toolbox
- Other
- World Radiation Data Centre (WRDC): http://wrdc-mgo.nrel.gov (NO relation to BSRN)