Baseline Surface Radiation Network

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Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) is a project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) 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.

BSRN 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.