Long-term trends in downwelling spectral infrared radiance over the U.S. Southern Great Plains

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4831-4843

  Jonathan Gero, P ^a   Turner, David D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud cover; Infrared radiation; North America; Radiative transfer; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIANCE INTERFEROMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PROPERTIES; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLOUD COVER; DATA RECORDS; DATA SETS; DOWN-WELLING; INFRARED RADIANCES; INFRARED SPECTRUM; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM TREND; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NEURAL NETWORK METHOD; NORTH AMERICA; OBSERVED DATA; RESPONSIVITY; SCENE CLASSIFICATION; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; TIME SPAN; TIME-SCALES; TREND ANALYSIS; TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; INFRARED RADIATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; DOWNWELLING; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TREND ANALYSIS;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 80053147557     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4210.1     Document Type: Article

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