Tropical Cloud Properties and Radiative Heating Profiles

Mather, James

doi:10.5439/1171945

Title: Tropical Cloud Properties and Radiative Heating Profiles

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We have generated a suite of products that includes merged soundings, cloud microphysics, and radiative fluxes and heating profiles. The cloud microphysics is strongly based on the ARM Microbase value added product (Miller et al., 2003). We have made a few changes to the microbase parameterizations to address issues we observed in our initial analysis of the tropical data. The merged sounding product is not directly related to the product developed by ARM but is similar in that it uses the microwave radiometer to scale the radiosonde column water vapor. The radiative fluxes also differ from the ARM BBHRP (Broadband Heating Rate Profile) product in terms of the radiative transfer model and the sampling interval.

Authors:: Mather, James

Publication Date:: 2008-01-15

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:: Atmospheric moisture; Atmospheric pressure; Atmospheric temperature; Cloud optical depth; Cloud droplet size; Ice water content; Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance; Longwave broadband upwelling irradiance; Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance; Shortwave broadband total upwelling irradiance; Liquid water content; Ozone Concentration; Radiative heating rate; Surface albedo

OSTI Identifier:: 1171945

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5439/1171945

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