radiative forcing

A Dictionary of Geography;      16 words ...radiative forcing The increase in the trapping of outgoing terrestrial radiation by greenhouse gases .

Design and analysis of climate model experiments for the efficient...

Journal of Climate;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......allows the effects of several radiative forcing factors on climate to be estimated as precisely...represented by its global mean radiative forcing. The strong colinearity in...proportional to the global mean radiative forcing, reinforcing the use of radiative ...

Seasonal Variation of Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing and Optical...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The surface direct radiative forcing and optical properties of aerosols...aerosols exhibit the minimum surface radiative forcing and a minimum AOT, but the maximum...of 0.02 was estimated. The surface radiative forcing in the VIS band was estimated to...

Influence of dynamics on the changes in tropical cloud radiative forcing...

Journal of Climate;  July 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......between anomalous cloud radiative forcing over the tropical west...of the Hadley Centre climate model, forced by the observed...and net (NET) cloud radiative forcing (CF) diagnostic and...of the Hadley Centre climate model to reproduce these changes...Exploratory ...

A Method to Estimate Aerosol Radiative Forcing from Spectral Optical...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Radiative forcing of aerosols is much more difficult...properties. Estimation of aerosol radiative forcing generally requires knowledge...albedo and, hence, aerosol radiative forcing can be estimated. Note that...

A Sensitivity Study of the Effect of Horizontal Photon Transport on the...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......dependence of shortwave and longwave radiative forcing on contrail aspect ratio, optical...increase in the positive longwave radiative forcing of the contrail and either an increase...magnitude of the negative shortwave radiative forcing depending on the orientation of the...

An aerosol climatology at Kyoto: Observed local radiative forcing and...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the clear-sky direct radiative forcing is considered in this...of the surface aerosol radiative forcing, observed total surface...and the surface aerosol radiative forcing, it is concluded that...

Future development of contrail cover, optical depth, and radiative...

Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......development of the simulated contrail radiative forcing is most closely related to total...an increase of global annual mean radiative forcing from 3.5 mW m^sup -2^ in 1992, to...in 2050. Uncertainties in contrail radiative forcing mainly arise from uncertainties in...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model: CCM3

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model: CCM3* Abstract The...Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM3) is described...improvements in the simulated climate of the CCM. In particular...of atmosphere cloud radiative forcing is now in good agreement...given the name ...

Uncertainties in the Radiative Forcing Due to Sulfate Aerosols

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......illustrate the large uncertainty in the radiative forcing due to sulfate aerosols. The most...range in previous estimates of the radiative forcing due to sulfate aerosols reflected...potentially large uncertainty in the radiative forcing due to sulfate aerosol. 1. Introduction...

Simultaneously constraining climate sensitivity and aerosol radiative...

Journal of Climate;  October 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......ABSTRACT An energy balance climate model with latitudinal, surface-a...temperature since 1765. The climate model sensitivity can be prescribed...be that the estimated radiative forcing due to the eruption of...reduced the effective radiative forcing. If half the base ...

Saharan Dust Aerosol Radiative Forcing Measured from Space

Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......dust broadband shortwave aerosol radiative forcing over the Atlantic Ocean near the...the diurnally averaged Saharan dust radiative forcing efficiency (i.e., broadband shortwave...observational constraints for models of dust radiative forcing. (ProQuest Information and Learning...

Impact of Desert Dust Radiative Forcing on Sahel Precipitation: Relative...

Journal of Climate;  April 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The role of direct radiative forcing of desert dust aerosol in the change...the atmosphere and larger longwave radiative forcing by dust. Simulations using SOM show...precipitation south of the ITCZ when dust radiative forcing is included. In SST-forced simulations...

RADIATIVE FORCING BY TROPOSPHERIC OZONE

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  March 1, 2004 ;     409 words ......radiometric measurements of the surface radiative forcing fluxes from the gases below the cloud...thermal background of the cloudy sky. Radiative forcing fluxes from ozone, carbon monoxide...larger than the measured surface radiative forcing. Hence the 0.23 W m^sup -2^ translates...

Daytime variation of shortwave direct radiative forcing of biomass burning...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......daytime variation of shortwave direct radiative forcing (SWARF) of smoke aerosols over biomass...atmospheric circulation. The direct radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols from sulfates...0 W m^sup -2^ while the indirect radiative forcing estimates range from 0 to - 1.5 W...