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The role of global cloud climatologies in validating numerical modelsThe net upward longwave surface radiation is exceedingly difficult to measure from space. A hybrid method using General Circulation Model (GCM) simulations and satellite data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) was used to produce global maps of this quantity over oceanic areas. An advantage of this technique is that no independent knowledge or assumptions regarding cloud cover for a particular month are required. The only information required is a relationship between the cloud radiation forcing (CRF) at the top of the atmosphere and that at the surface, which is obtained from the GCM simulation. A flow diagram of the technique and results are given.
Document ID
19920004286
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
HARSHVARDHAN (Purdue Univ. West Lafayette, IN, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1991
Subject Category
Geophysics
Report/Patent Number
NASA-CR-188923
NAS 1.26:188923
Meeting Information
Meeting: ECMWF/GEWEX Workshop on the Hydrology and Surface Radiation in Atmospheric Models
Location: Reading
Start Date: October 28, 1991
End Date: November 1, 1991
Accession Number
92N13504
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-1125
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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