Skip to main content
Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Exploratory studies of cloud radiative forcing with a general circulation model Cover

Exploratory studies of cloud radiative forcing with a general circulation model

Open Access
|Jan 1987

References

  1. Alexander , R. C. and Mobley , R. L . 1976 . Monthly average sea-surface temperatures and ice-pack limits on a 10 global grid . Mon. Wea. Rev . 104 , 143 148 .
  2. Briegleb , B. P. , Minnis , P. , Ramanathan , V. and Harrison , E . 1986 . Comparison of regional clear-sky albedos inferred from satellite observations and model computations . J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol . 25 , 214 226 .
  3. Cess , R. D . 1976 . Climate change: An appraisal of atmospheric feedback mechanisms employing zonal climatology . J. Atmos. Sci . 33 , 1831 1843 .
  4. Cess , R. D. , Briegleb , B. P. and Lian , M. S . 1982 . Low-latitude cloudiness and climate feedback: Compara-tive estimates from satellite data. J. Atmos. Sci . 39 , 53 59 .
  5. Cess , R. D. , Potter , G. L. , Ghan , S. J. and Gates , W. L . 1985 . The climatic effects of large injections of atmospheric smoke and dust: A study of climate feed-back mechanisms with one- and three-dimen-sional climate models . J. Geophys. Res . 90 , 12937 12950 .
  6. Cess , R. D. and Ramanathan , V . 1978 . Averaging of infrared cloud opacities for climate modeling . J. Atmos. Sci . 35 , 919 922 .
  7. Charlock , T. P . 1982 . Cloud optical feedback and climate stability in a radiative-convective model . Tellus 34 , 245 254 .
  8. Charlock , T. P. and Ramanathan , V . 1985 . The albedo field and cloud radiative forcing produced by a general circulation model with internally generated cloud optics . J. Atmos. Sci . 42 , 1408 1429 .
  9. Dickinson , R. E . 1982 . Modeling climatic changes due to carbon dioxide increases. In Carbon dioxide review (ed by W. C. Clark ). New York: Clarendon , 101 113 .
  10. Ghan , S. J. , Lingaas , J. W. , Schlesinger , M. E. , Mobley , R. L. and Gates , W. L . 1982 . A documentation of the OSU two-level atmospheric general circulation model. Report 61 , Climatic Re-search Institute, Oregon State University , Corvallis, Oreg. , 391 pp.
  11. Gruber , A. and Winston , J. S . 1978 . Earth-atmosphere radiative heating based on NOAA scanning radiometer measurements . Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc . 59 , 1570 1573 .
  12. Hall , M. C. G. , Cacuci , D. G. and Schlesinger , M. E . 1982 . Sensitivity analysis of a radiative-convective model by the adjoint method . J. Atmos. Sci . 39 , 2038 2050 .
  13. Hartmann , D. L. , Ramanathan , V. , Berroir , A. and Hunt , G. E . 1986 . Earth radiation budget data and climate research . Rev. Geophys. Space Phys . 24 , 439 468 .
  14. Hartmann , D. L. and Short , D. A . 1980 . On the use of earth radiation budget statistics for studies of clouds and climate. J. Atmos. Sci . 37 , 1233 1250 .
  15. Herman , G. , Wu , M. L. and Johnson , W. 1980 . The effects of clouds on the earth's solar and infrared radiation budgets. J. Atmos. Sci. 37 , 1251 1261 .
  16. Lacis , A. A. and Hansen , J. E . 1974 . A parameterization for the absorption of solar radiation in the earth's atmosphere . J. Atmos. Sci . 31 , 118 133 .
  17. Minnis , P. and Harrison , E. F . 1984a . Diurnal vari-ability of regional cloud and clear-sky radiative parameters derived from GOES data. Part II: November 1978 cloud distributions. J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol . 23 , 1012 1031 .
  18. Minnis , P. and Harrison , E. F . 1984b . Diurnal vari-ability of regional cloud and clear-sky radiative parameters derived from GOES data. Part III: November 1978 radiative parameters . J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol . 23 , 1032 1051 .
  19. Ohring , G. and Clapp , P . 1980 . The effects of changes in cloud amount on the net radiation at the top of the atmosphere . J. Atmos. Sci . 37 , 447 454 .
  20. Paltridge , G. W . 1980 . Cloud-radiation feedback to climate . Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc . 106 , 895 899 .
  21. Petukhov , V. K. , Feygelson , Ye. M. and Manuylova , N. I . 1975 . The regulating role of clouds in the heat effects of anthropogenic aerosols and carbon dioxide . Atmos. Oceanic Phys . 11 , 802 808 .
  22. Potter , G. L. and Cess , R. D . 1984 . Background tropospheric aerosols: Incorporation within a statisti-cal-dynamical climate model . J. Geophys. Res . 89 , 9521 9526 .
  23. Ramanathan , V . 1981 . The role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in the CO2 climate problem . J. Atmos. Sci . 38 , 981 930 .
  24. Ramanathan , V . 1983 . Modeling studies of cloud radi-ation feedback problems in the earth's atmosphere. The Seymour Hess Memorial Symposium, Recent Advances in Planetary Meteorology , International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, XVIII General Asembly , Hamburg, Germany , Program and Ab-stracts , p. 373.
  25. Ramanathan , V . 1985 . Scientific use of surface radi-ation budget data for climate studies. World Climate Program Report on Surface radiation budget for climate applications , (eds.: J. T. Suttles and G. Ohring ). World Meteorological Organization , Geneva , Switzerland .
  26. Ramanathan , V . 1987 . The role of earth radiation budget studies in climate and genera circulation research . J. Geophys. Res. , in press .
  27. Ramanathan , V. , Lian , M. S. and Cess , R. D . 1979 . Increased atmospheric CO2: Zonal and seasonal esti-mates of the effect on the radiation energy balance and surface temperature . J. Geophys. Res . 84 , 4949 4958 .
  28. Randall , D. A. , Abeles , J. A. and Corsetti , T. G . 1985 . Seasonal simulations of the planetary boundary layer and boundary-layer stratocumulus clouds with a general circulation model . J. Atmos. Sci . 42 , 641 676 .
  29. Randall , D. A. and Harshvardhan 1986. Cloud radiative forcing in a general circulation. Extended Abstracts , Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Radiation , American Meteorological Society , Williamsburg, VA , 31 34 .
  30. Saunders , R. W. , Stowe , L. L. , Hunt , G. E. and England , C. F . 1983 . An intercomparison between radiation budget estimates from METEOSAT 1, Nimbus-7 and TIROS-N satellites . J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol . 22 , 546 559 .
  31. Schlesinger , M. E . 1984 . Climate model simulations of CO2-induced climatic change , Adv. Geophys . 26 , 141 235 .
  32. Schlesinger , M. E. and Mitchell , J. F. B . 1985 . Model projections of the equilibrium climatic response to increased carbon dioxide. Projecting the climatic effects of increasing carbon dioxide , (eds.: M. C. MacCracken and F. M. Luther ). US Department of Energy Report DOE/ER-02037 , 381 pp.
  33. Slingo , J. 1982 . A study of the earth's radiation budget using a general circulation model. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 180 , 379 405 .
  34. Somerville , R. C. J. and Remer , L. A. 1984 . Cloud optical thickness feedbacks in the CO2 climate problem. J. Geophys. Res . 89 , 9668 9672 .
  35. Stowe , L. L. , Pellegrino , P. P. , Hwang , P. H. , Bhartia , P. K. , Eck , T. F. and Long , C. S . 1986 . Spatial and temporal characteristics of global cloud cover as observed from the Nimbus-7 satellite. Extended Abstracts, Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Radiation , American Meteorological Society , Williamsburg, VA , 99 102 .
  36. Wetherald , R. T. and Manabe , S . 1986 . An investigation of cloud cover change in response to thermal forcing . Clim. Change 8 , 5 23 .
Language: English
Page range: 460 - 473
Submitted on: Oct 22, 1986
Accepted on: Dec 15, 1986
Published on: Jan 1, 1987
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1987 Robert D. Cess, Gerald L. Potter, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.