Breathing Earth System Simulator (BESS) Radiation v1

  • The dataset covers the period from 2001-01-01 to 2021-12-31 and is provided by Seoul National University (SNU).

  • It contains daily 5-km products generated by the Breathing Earth System Simulator (BESS) model, which couples various environmental processes.

  • The dataset includes bands for surface downwelling photosynthetic radiative flux (PAR_Daily), diffuse photosynthetic radiative flux (PARdiff_Daily), and surface downwelling shortwave flux (RSDN_Daily), all in W/m^2 units with a pixel size of 5500 meters.

  • The terms of use for this dataset are specified as CC-BY-4.0.

  • The dataset can be explored and analyzed using the Google Earth Engine platform.

SNU/ESL/BESS/Rad/v1
Dataset Availability
2001-01-01T00:00:00Z–2021-12-31T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("SNU/ESL/BESS/Rad/v1")
Cadence
1 Day
Tags
climate evapotranspiration gpp modis-derived par radiation shortwave

Description

Breathing Earth System Simulator (BESS) is a simplified process-based model that couples atmosphere and canopy radiative transfers, canopy photosynthesis, transpiration, and energy balance. It couples an atmospheric radiative transfer model and artificial neural network with forcings from MODIS atmospheric products to generate 5-km daily products.

Publications:

  • Ryu Youngryel, Chongya Jiang, Hideki Kobayashi, Matteo Detto, MODIS-derived global land products of shortwave radiation and diffuse and total photosynthetically active radiation at 5km resolution from 2000. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 204, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.09.021

Bands

Pixel Size
5500 meters

Bands

Name Units Pixel Size Description
PAR_Daily W/m^2 meters

Surface downwelling photosynthetic radiative flux in air

PARdiff_Daily W/m^2 meters

Surface diffuse downwelling photosynthetic radiative flux in air

RSDN_Daily W/m^2 meters

Surface downwelling shortwave flux in air

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

CC-BY-4.0

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('SNU/ESL/BESS/Rad/v1');

var visParams = {
  bands: ['PAR_Daily'],
  min: 0,
  max: 70,
  palette: ['black', 'purple', 'blue', 'yellow', 'orange', 'red']
};

Map.setCenter(2.1, 24.9, 3);

Map.addLayer(
    dataset, visParams,
    'Surface downwelling photosynthetic radiative flux (W/m^2)');
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