Spectrally resolved fluxes derived from collocated AIRS and CERES measurements and their application in model evaluation: 2. Cloudy sky and band-by-band cloud radiative forcing over the tropical oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Xianglei ^a   Loeb, Norman G ^b   Yang, Wenze ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFRARED DEVICES; TROPICS;

AM2 MODEL; ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD HEIGHTS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDY SKIES; EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; IDEALIZED MODELS; LINEAR PREDICTION; LONG WAVES; MODEL EVALUATION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SPECTRAL FLUX; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; SYNTHETIC SPECTRA; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TROPICAL OCEAN;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LINEARITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 78149339330     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD013932     Document Type: Article

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