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An Improved Radiative Transfer Model for Climate Calculations

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents a radiative transfer model that has been developed to accurately predict the atmospheric radiant flux in both the infrared and the solar spectrum with a minimum of computational effort. The model is designed to be included in numerical climate models To assess the accuracy of the model, the results are compared to other more detailed models for several standard cases in the solar and thermal spectrum. As the thermal spectrum has been treated in other publications, we focus here on the solar part of the spectrum. We perform several example calculations focussing on the question of absorption of solar radiation by gases and aerosols.

Source: NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA)

Authors: Bergstrom, Robert W., Mlawer, Eli J., Toon, Owen B., Sokolik, Irina N., Clough, Shepard A.

Institutions: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, University of Colorado Boulder

Language: English

Topic: Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

OpenAlex ID: W898299561

FWCI: 0.578

Cites: 26

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10