A transitioning Arctic surface energy budget: The impacts of solar zenith angle, surface albedo and cloud radiative forcing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1643-1660

  Sedlar, Joseph ^a   Tjernström, Michael ^a   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^b   Shupe, Matthew D ^c   Brooks, Ian M ^d   Persson, P Ola G ^c   Birch, Cathryn E ^d   Leck, Caroline ^a   Sirevaag, Anders ^e   Nicolaus, Marcel ^f,g  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Cloud radiative forcing; Longwave radiation; Sea ice; Shortwave radiation; Surface energy budget

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ENERGY BUDGET; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA ICE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ZENITH ANGLE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053333915     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0937-5     Document Type: Article

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