Abstract: Based on the data from Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), many investigators have concluded that the net cloud radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere is small in the deep convective region of the Tropics. ...

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Abstract: Radiative forcing of aerosols is much more difficult to estimate than that of well-mixed gases due to the large spatial variability of aerosols and the lack of an adequate database on their radiative properties. Estimation ...

Abstract: The relationship between monthly mean outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and the mean moist static energy of the lower troposphere is shown to be similar to the relationship between monthly mean OLR and sea surface temperature ...

Abstract: Outgoing longwave radiation data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment show that the meridional migration of tropical convergence zones (TCZ) varies greatly from one region to another in the Tropics. In Africa, the ...

Abstract: The outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) fluxes derived from NOAA-SR (1974?78) are found to he consistently higher than those from NOAA-7 (1982 onward) over a large part of the tropical belt. Analysis of the variation of the ...

Abstract: Several numerical experiments have been conducted using the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model, version 3 (CAM3) to examine the impact of the time step on rainfall in the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) in an aquaplanet. ...

Abstract: AbstractRain gauges are considered the most accurate method to estimate rainfall and are used as the ?ground truth? for a wide variety of applications. The spatial density of rain gauges varies substantially and hence ...