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Radiative Flux References
  • Guest, P. S. 1998: Surface longwave radiation conditions in the eastern Weddell Sea during winter, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C13), 30,761–30,771.
  • Gupta, S. K., D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber, and L. C. Nguyen, 2004: Validation of parameterized algorithms used to derive TRMM-CERES surface radiative fluxes. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 21, 742-752.
  • Iacono, M. J., E. J. Mlawer, S. A. Clough, and J.-J. Morcrette, 2000:   Impact of an improved longwave radiation model, RRTM, on the energy budget and thermodynamic properties of the NCAR community climate model, CCM3, J. Geophys. Res., 105(D11), 14,873–14,890.
  • Intieri, J. M., C. W. Fairall, M. D. Shupe, P. O. G. Persson, E. L. Andreas, P. S. Guest, and R. E. Moritz, 2002: An annual cycle of Arctic surface cloud forcing at SHEBA, J. Geophys. Res.. 107, 8039, doi:10.1029/2000JC000439.
  • Key, J. R., Silcox, R. A. and Stone, R. S., 1996: Evaluation of surface radiative flux parameterizations for use in sea ice models. J. Geophys. Res. 101, pp. 3839–3849
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  • Liu, H. Q., and R. T. Pinker, 2008.  Radiative fluxes from satellites:  Focus on aerosols. J. Geophys. Res. 113, D08208.
  • Liu, J., J. A. Curry, W. B. Rossow, J. R. Key, and X. Wang, 2005: Comparison of surface radiative flux data sets over the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, C02015, doi: 10.1029/2004JC002381, 1-13.
  • Loeb, N. G.., N.-M. Smith, S. Kato, W. F. Miller, S. K.Gupta, P. Minnis, and B. A. Wielicki, 2003: Angular distribution models for top-of atmosphere radiative flux estimation from the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Satellite, J. Appld Meteor., 42, 1748-1769.
  • Lubin, D. and A. M. Vogelmann, 2006: A climatologically significant aerosol longwave indirect effect in the Arctic, Nature, 439, 453-456.
    Pietroni, I., P. Anderson, S. Argentini, and J. King, 2008. Long wave radiation behaviour at Halley and Concordia stations, Antarctica. SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-03254 EGU General Assembly 2008.
  • Rossow W B and E. N. Duenas, 2004. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Web site - An online resource for research. Bull. Amer. Meteorolog. Soc., 85, 167-172.
  • Wang, H., and R. T. Pinker, 2009: Radiative Fluxes from MODIS. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
  • Wild, M., A. Ohmura, H. Gilgen, J.-J. Morcrette, and A. Sling, 2001. Evaluation of Downward Longwave Radiation in General Circulation Models. J. Climate, 14, 3227-3239.

 

 

Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

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Science Tidbits    

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

 

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