5.4. Current existing products and long-term variations

5.4.1. Existing products and evaluation

Currently, four representative global satellite DSSR products are widely used, including the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment—Surface Radiation Budget (GEWEX-SRB) (Pinker and Laszlo, 1992) at 3-h temporal resolution and 1° spatial resolution, the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project—Flux Data (ISCCP-FD) at 3-h intervals and 2.5° spatial resolution (Zhang et al., 2004), the University of Maryland (UMD)/Shortwave Radiation Budget (SRB) product with 0.5° spatial resolution (Ma and Pinker, 2012), and the CERES-EBAF with 1° spatial resolution (Kato et al. 2012, 2013). The Detailed Information on these four datasets is presented ...

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