Abstract: loud response to Earth?s changing climate is one of the largest sources of uncertainty among Global Climate Model (GCM) projections. Two of the largest sources of uncertainty are the spread in Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity ...

Abstract: AbstractA diagnostic tool for determining surface and atmospheric contributions to interannual variations in top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflected shortwave (SW) and net downward SW surface radiative fluxes is introduced. The ...

Abstract: eliably determining low-cloud heights using a cloud-top temperature from satellite infrared imagery is often challenging because of difficulties in characterizing the local thermal structure of the lower troposphere with ...

Abstract: Understanding the impact of aerosols on the earth?s radiation budget and the long-term climate record requires consistent measurements of aerosol properties and radiative fluxes. The Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy ...

Abstract: Abstract Ice cloud particles exhibit a range of shapes and sizes affecting a cloud?s single-scattering properties. Because they cannot be inferred from passive visible/infrared imager measurements, assumptions about the ...

Abstract: ariability present at a satellite instrument sampling scale (small-scale variability) has been neglected in earlier simulations of atmospheric and cloud property change retrievals using spatially and temporally averaged ...