Sea ice thickness and radiation measurements above the Arctic Ocean, Spitzbergen, during POLAR 5 campaign SoRPIC with links to raw data files ...

SoRPIC (short for Solar Radiation and Phase Discrimination of Arctic Clouds) is a scientific project to investigate the effects of mixed-phase clouds on the energy budget of the Earth's atmosphere in the Arctic. Similar to greenhouse gases, they interact with solar and terrestrial (thermal infr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ehrlich, André, Gehrmann, Martin, Nehring, Franziska
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2011
Subjects:
Event label
Date/Time of event
Latitude of event
Longitude of event
Date/Time of event 2
Latitude of event 2
Longitude of event 2
Uniform resource locator/link to raw data file
Aircraft
SoRPIC_2010
POLAR 5
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
polar night
Sea ice
Spitzbergen
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.770653
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.770653
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Summary:SoRPIC (short for Solar Radiation and Phase Discrimination of Arctic Clouds) is a scientific project to investigate the effects of mixed-phase clouds on the energy budget of the Earth's atmosphere in the Arctic. Similar to greenhouse gases, they interact with solar and terrestrial (thermal infrared) radiation. Generally and annually averaged, Arctic boundary-layer clouds tend to have a warming effect: While the clouds reflect solar energy back into space, they also keep terrestrial (thermal) radiation from escaping into space. The resulting impact, however, is in detail highly variable and depends on various properties of the clouds and of the underlying surface. Furthermore, the long periods of polar day and polar night makes the estimation of the overall effect even more complicated. The Arctic boundary-layer mixed-phase clouds are particularly difficult to include in climate models, but play a crucial role in the predictions. The SoRPIC participants have performed airborne measurements of the ...

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