Abstract: Cloud amount, as a climate feedback mechanism, encompasses separate and competing albedo and infrared feedbacks. In the present note we illustrate that the relative role of the infrared feedback mechanism cannot be determined ...

Abstract: Disagreement exists, with regard to different types of climate models, concerning the influence of ice-albedo feedback upon the stability of the present global climate. In view of this we have reexamined the empirical ...

Abstract: At low latitudes the seasonal variation in the radiation budget of the earth-atmosphere system is due largely to seasonal variability in cloudiness. Making use of this, we have estimated, from three different sets of ...

Abstract: Satellite measurements from January 1985 to December 1989 show that warmer tropical oceans as a whole are associated with less longwave greenhouse effect of clouds and less cloud reflection of solar radiation to the space. ...

Abstract: Using recently calculated models of the Jovian atmosphere, we have derived a value of 5.0 for the H2/He mixing ratio from the Pioneer 10 infrared radiometer data. We have also computed a far-infrared spectrum corresponding ...

Abstract: Recent studies by Cess et al. and Ramanathan et al. find that clouds absorb significantly more shortwave radiation than currently modeled by general circulation models. Initial calculations for the global annual shortwave ...

Abstract: This study addresses two aspects of the planetary albedo's diurnal cycle, the first of which refers to directional models of the planetary albodo. It is found that even for clear regions there appear to be deficiencies in ...