Abstract: arth system variability is generated by a number of different sources and time scales. Understanding sources of atmospheric variability is critical to reducing the uncertainty in climate models and to understanding the ...

Abstract: he diurnal cycle is a fundamental earth system variability driven by daily variations in solar insolation. Understanding diurnal variability is important for characterizing top-of-atmosphere and surface energy budgets. ...

Abstract: iurnal variability is a fundamental component of Earth?s climate system. Clouds, temperature, and precipitation exhibit robust responses to the daily cycle of solar insolation. Recent work indicates significant variability ...

Abstract: The plane-parallel horizontal (PPH) hypothesis used to approximate clouds in GCMs neglects three-dimensional cloud effects. Such effects can amount to as much as 20 W m?2 in longwave radiation. Several investigators have ...

Abstract: atellite observations of the earth?s radiation budget (ERB) are a critical component of the climate observing system. Recent observations have been made from sun-synchronous orbits, which provide excellent spatial coverage ...

Abstract: eanalysis model output is extensively used in atmospheric research and must be rigorously and continuously evaluated to understand the strengths and weaknesses. This paper evaluates the tropical top-of-atmosphere (TOA) ...

Abstract: iven the large amount of climate model output generated from the series of simulations from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), a standard set of performance metrics would facilitate model ...

Abstract: his study performs offline, partial radiative perturbation calculations to determine the geographical distributions of climate feedbacks contributing to the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiative energy budget. These radiative ...

Abstract: his study investigates the annual cycle of radiative contributions to global climate feedbacks. A partial radiative perturbation (PRP) technique is used to diagnose monthly radiative perturbations at the top of atmosphere ...