Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3219817c&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 19, CiteID L19817
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud/Radiation Interaction, Atmospheric Processes: Global Climate Models (1626, 4928), Atmospheric Processes: Radiative Processes
Scientific paper
Shortwave and longwave 2D radiative transfer calculations were performed using Monte Carlo radiative transfer models and output from a global climate model (GCM) that employed, in each of its columns, a 2D cloud system-resolving model (CSRM) with a horizontal grid-spacing Δx of 4 km. CSRM output were sampled every 9 hours for December 2000. Radiative fluxes were averaged to the GCM's grid. Monthly-mean top of atmosphere (TOA) shortwave flux differences between 2D radiative transfer and the Independent Column Approximation (ICA) are at most 5 W m-2 in the tropics with a zonal-average of 1.5 W m-2. These differences are 2 to 10 times smaller than those stemming from the maximum-random overlap model and neglect of horizontal variability of cloud. Corresponding longwave differences are approximately 3 times smaller than their shortwave counterparts. Use of CSRM data with Δx < 4 km may roughly double the reported differences between 2D and ICA TOA SW fluxes.
Barker Howard W.
Clothiaux Eugene E.
Cole N. S. J.
Khairoutdinov Marat F.
O'Hirok W.
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