Abstract: Our knowledge of the direct role of clouds in long-term climate change is examined in an overview of key results published over the last 15 or 20 years, along with some relevant unpublished model studies. The focus is on ...

Abstract: A comparison of the output of two data assimilation models with a quasi-global, multiyear set of monthly mean observations shows that the models underestimate the amount of solar energy absorbed in the atmosphere by 15?30 ...

Abstract: Theoretical models of the Venus cloud layer are compared with observations in the U, B and V spectral regions. It is found that the models are sensitive to the detailed scattering properties of the particles. A model of a ...

Abstract: This paper compares accuracy for the daily averaged reflection, transmission, and absorption of solar flux derived from the delta-four-stream approximation and a few selected two-stream approximations. In the chosen variety ...

Abstract: Analysis of four years of earth radiation budget, cloud, and sea surface temperature data confirms that cloud parameters change dramatically when and where sea surface temperatures increase above ?300 K. These results are ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments are performed to examine the effects of line shape and band structure on the radiative equilibrium temperature profile in planetary atmospheres. In order to accurately determine these effects, a method ...

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Abstract: An efficient method has been developed to compute the absorption of solar radiation by water vapor. The method is based on the molecular line parameters compiled by McClatchey et al. (1973) and makes use of the far-wing ...

Abstract: A fast but accurate method for calculating the infrared radiative terms due to water vapor has been developed. It makes use of the behavior in the far wings of absorption lines to scale transmission along an inhomogencous ...

Abstract: A technique is described for extracting cloud cover parameters from multispectral satellite radiometric measurements. Utilizing three channels (visible, 3.7 ?m and 11 ?m) from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution ...