How well do we understand the Earth's radiation budget and the role of clouds? Selected results of the GEWEX radiation flux assessment | Zendy

E. Raschke | Zendy; S. Kinne | Zendy

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How well do we understand the Earth's radiation budget and the role of clouds? Selected results of the GEWEX radiation flux assessment

Author(s) -

E. Raschke,

S. Kinne

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

aip conference proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

eISSN - 1551-7616

pISSN - 0094-243X

DOI - 10.1063/1.4804849

Subject(s) - flux (metallurgy) , environmental science , atmosphere (unit) , radiative transfer , radiation flux , radiative flux , satellite , atmospheric sciences , earth's energy budget , radiation , divergence (linguistics) , atmospheric model , meteorology , remote sensing , physics , geography , optics , materials science , astronomy , metallurgy , linguistics , philosophy

Multi-year average radiative flux maps of three satellite data-sets (CERES, ISSCP and GEWEX-SRB) are compared to each other and to typical values by global modeling (median values of results of 20 climate models of the 4th IPCC Assessment). Diversity assessments address radiative flux products and at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and the surface, with particular attention to impacts by clouds. Involving both data from surface and TOA special attention is given to the vertical radiation flux divergence and on the infrared Greenhouse effect, which are rarely shown in literature. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC

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