Cloud Radiation Interaction and the Earth's Climate: Relevance to the Climate of the Arctic

The influence on the energy balance of the earth's climate system is reviewed and is based on recent satellite observations of the Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB) and other satellite-derived cloud information. The special difficulties that polar cloudiness poses in analysis of ERB data are...

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Main Author: Stephens, Graeme L.
Other Authors: COLORADO STATE UNIV FORT COLLINS DEPT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1992
Subjects:
Meteorology
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*ALBEDO
*CLOUD PHYSICS
*SEA ICE
BALANCE
CLIMATE
ENERGY
FEEDBACK
GLOBAL
RADIATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
*Global climate change
Component Reports
*Radiation balance
Arctic
Fairbanks
albedo
Climate change
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP007280
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADP007280
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Summary:The influence on the energy balance of the earth's climate system is reviewed and is based on recent satellite observations of the Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB) and other satellite-derived cloud information. The special difficulties that polar cloudiness poses in analysis of ERB data are discussed. The role of arctic cloudiness on the snow-ice albedo feedback is examined and the possible influence of this feedback to global cloudiness and thus to the radiation balance on the earth are explored. This article is from 'Proceedings of the International Conference on the Role of the Polar Regions in Global Change Held in Fairbanks, Alaska on 11-15 June 1990. Volume 1', AD-A253 027, p151-157.

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