What Is The Global Energy And Water Experiment (GEWEX)?
Under GEWEX, the study of the radiation exchanges in the climate system combines ISCCP with a project to determine the global Surface Radiation Balance (SRB) from satellite observations, anchored by accurate, long-term measurements at the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) sites, with projects to determine the global distribution and radiative effects of aerosols, the Global Aerosol Climatology Project (GACP) and the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III), and other investigations of radiative modeling organized by the GEWEX Radiation Panel (GRP), including the Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models (ICRCCM) and the International Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes (I3RC) projects. These studies also make use of data from a continuing series of satellite experiments to determine the radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere (the NIMBUS-7 Earth Radiation Budget, the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), the Scanner for Radiation Budget (Sc
