Chakraborty TC tc.chakraborty@yale.edu 0000-0003-1338-3525 Lee Xuhui xuhui.lee@yale.edu 2021 BaRAD: Bias-Adjusted RADiation Dataset dataset https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932924 2021-06-23T06:53:58 The diffuse component of solar radiation is an important, but understudied, component of the Earth's surface radiation budget. Most global climate models do not archive data on this component and observations of diffuse radiation are rare. Here, we archive a global 40-year (1980 - 2019) monthly radiation database called BaRAD (Bias-adjusted RADiation dataset) that includes the total shortwave radiation and its partitioning into its diffuse and direct beam components. The dataset is based on a random forest algorithm trained using the Global Energy Balance Archive (GEBA) monthly observation network and implemented on the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) dataset at the native MERRA-2 resolution (0.5 degree by 0.625 degree). The dataset picks up the seasonal, latitudinal, and long-term trends in the MERRA-2 data, but with reduced biases than MERRA-2. The dataset can reduce uncertainties in modelling surface energy and carbon budgets and help optimize the placement of concentrating solar power systems. Chakraborty TC tc.chakraborty@yale.edu 0000-0003-1338-3525 Lee Xuhui xuhui.lee@yale.edu 2021 Using supervised learning to develop BaRAD, a 40-year monthly bias-adjusted global gridded radiation dataset journal article Scientific Data 8(1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01016-4 238 1980-01-01T00:00:00 2019-12-31T00:00:00 not specified 40 CC-BY-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ DATE/TIME Date/Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 Time T http://dbpedia.org/resource/Time Chakraborty TC tc.chakraborty@yale.edu 0000-0003-1338-3525 Date/Time Binary Object Binary Chakraborty TC tc.chakraborty@yale.edu 0000-0003-1338-3525 Binary Binary Object (File Size) Binary (Size) Bytes Chakraborty TC tc.chakraborty@yale.edu 0000-0003-1338-3525 Binary (Size) [Bytes] CurationLevelB Basic curation https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Curation_levels citable diffuse radiation machine learning radiation author82475 author82476 curlevel20 geocode1599 journal16741 license21 param146419 pi82475 ref108979 term43975 term47657 term48094 term48130 topotype1