Shortwave absorptance in a tropical cloudy atmosphere: Reconciling calculations and observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Parding, Kajsa ^a   Hinkelman, Laura M ^b   Ackerman, Thomas P ^b   McFarlane, Sally A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ABSORPTANCE; ABSORPTION VALUES; BEST FIT; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUDY ATMOSPHERES; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FIELD OF VIEWS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; NEGATIVE VALUES; NON-LINEARITY; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; QUADRATIC FIT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SCATTER PLOTS; SHORT WAVES; STATISTICAL MEASURES; STEEPER SLOPES; SURFACE DATA; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

SATELLITES;

ABSORBANCE; ABSORPTION; AIR SAMPLING; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; ISLAND; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TRANSMITTANCE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 80053593559     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015639     Document Type: Article

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