A Climatology of Cloud Amount of Midlatitude Continental Clouds in Tomsk Region: Preliminary Results
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program provides concentrated measurements of surface radiative budget as well as measurements of the atmospheric constituents including clouds, aerosols, water vapor, etc. at the Southern Great Plains (SGP), the Tropical Western Pacific and the North Slop...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.176.3845 http://www.arm.gov/publications/proceedings/conf16/extended_abs/zhuravleva_tb.pdf |
| Summary: | The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program provides concentrated measurements of surface radiative budget as well as measurements of the atmospheric constituents including clouds, aerosols, water vapor, etc. at the Southern Great Plains (SGP), the Tropical Western Pacific and the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) sites. The data obtained allow studying a wide, but not the full range of climatologically relevant possibilities, and thus additional investigations are needed to provide the completeness of the coverage. We present the data of ground-based observations of the state of cloudiness (total and low cloud amount, sunshine duration) over Tomsk (56.5N, 85.1E) carried out at the Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems (IMCES) SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia, since 1993. This region, situated in the zone of Siberian boreal forests, takes intermediate place between SGP and NSA sites of ARM Program, and is characterized, in particular, by underlying surface, features of seasonal variability, regularities of the airmass change, etc different from SGP and NSA. |
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