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Title: Broadband Heating Rate Profile Project (BBHRP) - SGP ripbe370mcfarlane

Abstract

The objective of the ARM Broadband Heating Rate Profile (BBHRP) Project is to provide a structure for the comprehensive assessment of our ability to model atmospheric radiative transfer for all conditions. Required inputs to BBHRP include surface albedo and profiles of atmospheric state (temperature, humidity), gas concentrations, aerosol properties, and cloud properties. In the past year, the Radiatively Important Parameters Best Estimate (RIPBE) VAP was developed to combine all of the input properties needed for BBHRP into a single gridded input file. Additionally, an interface between the RIPBE input file and the RRTM was developed using the new ARM integrated software development environment (ISDE) and effort was put into developing quality control (qc) flags and provenance information on the BBHRP output files so that analysis of the output would be more straightforward. This new version of BBHRP, sgp1bbhrpripbeC1.c1, uses the RIPBE files as input to RRTM, and calculates broadband SW and LW fluxes and heating rates at 1-min resolution using the independent column approximation. The vertical resolution is 45 m in the lower and middle troposphere to match the input cloud properties, but is at coarser resolution in the upper atmosphere. Unlike previous versions, the vertical grid is the samemore » for both clear-sky and cloudy-sky calculations.« less

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Publication Date:
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-00OR22725
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Collaborations:
PNL, BNL,ANL,ORNL
Subject:
54 Environmental Sciences
Keywords:
ARM; Broadband Heating Rate Profile Project; ripbe370mcfarlane; sgpripbe370mcfarlaneC1.c1
OSTI Identifier:
1163287
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5439/1163287

Citation Formats

Riihimaki, Laura, and Shippert, Timothy. Broadband Heating Rate Profile Project (BBHRP) - SGP ripbe370mcfarlane. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.5439/1163287.
Riihimaki, Laura, & Shippert, Timothy. Broadband Heating Rate Profile Project (BBHRP) - SGP ripbe370mcfarlane. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1163287
Riihimaki, Laura, and Shippert, Timothy. 2014. "Broadband Heating Rate Profile Project (BBHRP) - SGP ripbe370mcfarlane". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1163287. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1163287. Pub date:Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2014
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title = {Broadband Heating Rate Profile Project (BBHRP) - SGP ripbe370mcfarlane},
author = {Riihimaki, Laura and Shippert, Timothy},
abstractNote = {The objective of the ARM Broadband Heating Rate Profile (BBHRP) Project is to provide a structure for the comprehensive assessment of our ability to model atmospheric radiative transfer for all conditions. Required inputs to BBHRP include surface albedo and profiles of atmospheric state (temperature, humidity), gas concentrations, aerosol properties, and cloud properties. In the past year, the Radiatively Important Parameters Best Estimate (RIPBE) VAP was developed to combine all of the input properties needed for BBHRP into a single gridded input file. Additionally, an interface between the RIPBE input file and the RRTM was developed using the new ARM integrated software development environment (ISDE) and effort was put into developing quality control (qc) flags and provenance information on the BBHRP output files so that analysis of the output would be more straightforward. This new version of BBHRP, sgp1bbhrpripbeC1.c1, uses the RIPBE files as input to RRTM, and calculates broadband SW and LW fluxes and heating rates at 1-min resolution using the independent column approximation. The vertical resolution is 45 m in the lower and middle troposphere to match the input cloud properties, but is at coarser resolution in the upper atmosphere. Unlike previous versions, the vertical grid is the same for both clear-sky and cloudy-sky calculations.},
doi = {10.5439/1163287},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2014}
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