US
Global Radiation and Aerosols - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
Global Radiation and Aerosols - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
An official website of the United States government
Here's how you know
Official websites use .gov
.gov
website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or
means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Global Monitoring Laboratory
Global Radiation, Aerosols and Clouds
GRAD is involved in
observational and theoretical research of
the Earth's surface and atmospheric radiation budgets,
and of climate-forcing properties of different types of aerosols.
Long-term radiation, meteorological and aerosol
measurements are
made at diverse
globally-remote sites
and continental US sites (
SURFRAD
and
SOLRAD
).
In addition, we make observations of spectral solar radiation for the purpose of
remote sensing of certain atmospheric constituents and determination of variations
in the UV irradiance.
GRAD also operates the
NOAA Federated Aerosol Network (NFAN)
, whose goal is to characterize means, variability, and trends of climate-forcing properties of different types of aerosols, and to understand the factors that control these properties. These measurements are used for evaluating earth system models and provide ground-truth for satellite measurements.
Sites
Datasets
Data Viewer
News
Solar Calculator
Observing Networks
Aerosol Network
Baseline Network
SURFRAD Network
SOLRAD Network
NEUBrew Network
Antarctic UV Network
Data
SURFRAD Data Plots
SOLRAD Data Plots
Baseline Radiation Plots
Recent In Situ Aerosol Data Plots
Recent Observatory Data Plots
Aerosol Column Properties
Data Archive
Climate Products
Mauna Loa apparent transmission
Pacific Arctic Climate
Barrow's Annual Snow Cycle
Field Campaigns
NOAA SPLASH Study
Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP-2)
Wind Forecasting Improvement Project 3 (WFIP-3)
Cloud Properties Experiment (CPEX)
Instrumentation
Aerosol Instrumentation
Radiation Instrumentation
Broadband Solar Calibration Facility
Central UV Calibration Facility
Additional Information