Abstract: Observations based on Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) satellite data indicate that there is a near cancellation between tropical longwave and shortwave cloud forcing in regions of deep convective activity. Cloud ...

Abstract: The simulation of the tropical western Pacific warm pool is explored with the NCAR Climate System Model (CSM). The simulated sea surface temperatures in the Pacific basin have biases that are similar to other coupled model ...

Abstract: The zonally averaged radiative balance of the stratosphere based on the measured temperature structure and gas concentrations available from the LIMS instrument is examined in detail. These data are extant for seven months ...

Abstract: In the 12?18 ?m spectral region, the CO2 bands are overlapped by the H2O pure rotational band and the H2O continuum band. The 12?18 ?m H2O continuum absorption is neglected in most studies concerned with the climatic effects ...

Abstract: A stratosphere-troposphere version of the NCAR Community Climate Model is used to study the radiative and dynamical response to imposed changes to the model ozone distribution for perpetual January conditions. The imposed ...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to put forward a new estimate, in the context of previous assessments, of the annual global mean energy budget. A description is provided of the source of each component to this budget. The ...

Abstract: Mean meridional circulations for the months of November through May 1979 are deduced from the net radiative heating rates obtained from detailed calculations based on satellite observations of temperature and radiatively ...

Abstract: The energy budget of the latest version of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM3) is described. The energy budget at the top of the atmosphere and at the earth?s surface is ...

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: Improvements to the NCAR Climate System Model, CSM-1, primarily for transient climate forcing simulations, are discussed. The impact of the individual changes is assessed through atmosphere?land or ocean?ice experiments, ...