Decadal Changes of Earth’s Outgoing Longwave Radiation
The Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) at the top of the atmosphere quantifies how the earth gains energy from the sun and loses energy to space. Its monitoring is of fundamental importance for understanding ongoing climate change. In this paper, decadal changes of the Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) as...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a77f54bdeeb44da38116c0b19e6d85ca 2023-05-15T15:04:24+02:00 Decadal Changes of Earth’s Outgoing Longwave Radiation Steven Dewitte Nicolas Clerbaux 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101539 https://doaj.org/article/a77f54bdeeb44da38116c0b19e6d85ca EN eng MDPI AG http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/10/1539 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292 2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs10101539 https://doaj.org/article/a77f54bdeeb44da38116c0b19e6d85ca Remote Sensing, Vol 10, Iss 10, p 1539 (2018) earth radiation budget outgoing longwave radiation Science Q article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101539 2022-12-31T15:17:33Z The Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) at the top of the atmosphere quantifies how the earth gains energy from the sun and loses energy to space. Its monitoring is of fundamental importance for understanding ongoing climate change. In this paper, decadal changes of the Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) as measured by the Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System from 2000 to 2018, the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment from 1985 to 1998, and the High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder from 1985 to 2018 are analysed. The OLR has been rising since 1985, and correlates well with the rising global temperature. An observational estimate of the derivative of the OLR with respect to temperature of 2.93 +/− 0.3 W/m 2 K is obtained. The regional patterns of the observed OLR change from 1985–2000 to 2001–2017 show a warming pattern in the Northern Hemisphere in particular in the Arctic, as well as tropical cloudiness changes related to a strengthening of La Niña. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Remote Sensing 10 10 1539 |
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The Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) at the top of the atmosphere quantifies how the earth gains energy from the sun and loses energy to space. Its monitoring is of fundamental importance for understanding ongoing climate change. In this paper, decadal changes of the Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) as measured by the Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System from 2000 to 2018, the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment from 1985 to 1998, and the High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder from 1985 to 2018 are analysed. The OLR has been rising since 1985, and correlates well with the rising global temperature. An observational estimate of the derivative of the OLR with respect to temperature of 2.93 +/− 0.3 W/m 2 K is obtained. The regional patterns of the observed OLR change from 1985–2000 to 2001–2017 show a warming pattern in the Northern Hemisphere in particular in the Arctic, as well as tropical cloudiness changes related to a strengthening of La Niña. |
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