How well do we understand the Earth's radiation budget and the role of clouds? 
Selected results of the GEWEX radiation flux assessment

Raschke, E.; Kinne, Stefan

doi:10.1063/1.4804849

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How well do we understand the Earth's radiation budget and the role of clouds? Selected results of the GEWEX radiation flux assessment

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Kinne, Stefan
Observations and Process Studies, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Raschke, E., & Kinne, S. (2013). How well do we understand the Earth's radiation budget and the role of clouds? Selected results of the GEWEX radiation flux assessment. In R. F. Cahalan (Ed.), Radiation processes in the atmosphere and ocean (IRS2012): Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium (IRC/IAMAS) (pp. 632-635).

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Multi-year average radiative flux maps of three satellite data-sets (CERES, ISSCP and GEWEX-SRB) are compared to each other and to typical values by global modeling (median values of results of 20 climate models of the 4th IPCC Assessment). Diversity assessments address radiative flux products and at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and the surface, with particular attention to impacts by clouds. Involving both data from surface and TOA special attention is given to the vertical radiation flux divergence and on the infrared Greenhouse effect, which are rarely shown in literature. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.