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ASCII Data containing meteorological, radiometric and derived values associated with this paper.
The date range of this data set is 2004-02-27(2004058) to 2013-10-24(2013297).

The CERES Ocean Validation Experiment (COVE) was an instrument suite located at the Chesapeake Light Station approximately 25 kilometers east of Virginia Beach, Virginia (36.9° N, 75.7° W). COVE provided surface verification for the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite measurements for 16 years. However, the large light station occupied approximately 15 % of the field of view of the upwelling longwave flux measurement (LW↑), so radiation from the structure artificially perturbed the measurements.

A new upwelling longwave (LW) measuring technique is presented without the influence of an obstruction on a pyrgeometer using an infrared radiation thermometer, a downwelling LW pyrgeometer and an air temperature probe. This new technique could be used at other locations with obstruction issues and also to verify existing upwelling longwave pyrgeometer measurements.

Publication Title:
Fabbri, B. E., Schuster, G. L., Denn, F. M., Lin, B., Rutan, D. A., Su, W., Eitzen, Z. A., Madigan Jr., J. J., Arduini, R., and Loeb, N. G.: The Component Summation Technique for Measuring Upwelling Longwave Irradiance in the Presence of an Obstruction, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-872, 2025.  Submitted to EGUsphere.

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b.e.fabbri@nasa.gov

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