Longwave radiative analysis of cloudy scattering atmospheres using a Net Exchange Formulation

• Published in: Atmospheric Research
• Main Authors: Eymet, V., Dufresne, J.L., Ricchiazzi, P., Blanco, Stéphane, Fournier, Richard, A
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'énergétique (L.E.), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), University of California Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara), University of California (UC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2004
• Subjects: terrestrial GCM * Corresponding author Present address : Laboratoire d'Energétique; scattering; Net-exchange formulation; clouds; UFR-PCA; Radiation; [PHYS.COND.CM-SM]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Statistical Mechanics [cond-mat.stat-mech]; Arctic; Ner
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02024402; https://hal.science/hal-02024402/document; https://hal.science/hal-02024402/file/main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.03.017

International audience The Net Exchange Formulation (NEF) is an alternative to the usual radiative transfer equation. It was proposed in 1967 by Green [1] for atmospheric sciences and by Hottel [2] for engineering sciences. Until now, the NEF has been used only in a very few cases for atmospheric studies. Recently we have developped a longwave radiative code based on this formulation for a GCM of the Mars planet. Here, we will present results for the Earth atmosphere, obtained with a Monte Carlo Method based on the NEF. In this method, fluxes are not addressed any more. The basic variables are the net exchange rates (NER) between each pair of atmospheric layer (i, j), i.e. the radiative power emitted by i and absorbed by j minus the radiative power emitted by j and absorbed by i. The graphical representation of the NER matrix highlights the radiative exchanges that dominate the radiative budget of the atmosphere and allows one to have a very good insight of the radiative exchanges. Results will be presented for clear sky atmospheres with Mid-Latitude Summer and Sub-Arctic Winter temperature profiles, and for the same atmospheres with three different types of clouds. The effect of scattering on longwave radiative exchanges will also be analysed.