Climate and the Earth's Radiation Budget

Physics Today ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Ramanathan ◽  
Bruce R. Barkstrom ◽  
Edwin F. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Earth’S Radiation Budget

scholarly journals Air Temperature and Anthropogenic Forcing: Insights from the Solid Earth

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 569-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean O. Dickey ◽  
Steven L. Marcus ◽  
Olivier de Viron
Keyword(s):  
Air Temperature ◽  
Decadal Variability ◽  
Surface Air Temperature ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Cloud Formation ◽  
Length Of Day ◽  
Anthropogenic Forcing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Earth’S Radiation Budget ◽  
Gas Effect

Abstract Earth’s rotation rate [i.e., length of day (LOD)], the angular momentum of the core (CAM), and surface air temperature (SAT) all have decadal variability. Previous investigators have found that the LOD fluctuations are largely attributed to core–mantle interactions and that the SAT is strongly anticorrelated with the decadal LOD. It is shown here that 1) the correlation among these three quantities exists until 1930, at which time anthropogenic forcing becomes highly significant; 2) correcting for anthropogenic effects, the correlation is present for the full span with a broadband variability centered at 78 yr; and 3) this result underscores the reality of anthropogenic temperature change, its size, and its temporal growth. The cause of this common variability needs to be further investigated and studied. Since temperature cannot affect the CAM or LOD to a sufficient extent, the results favor either a direct effect of Earth’s core-generated magnetic field (e.g., through the modulation of charged-particle fluxes, which may impact cloud formation) or a more indirect effect of some other core process on the climate—or yet another process that affects both. In all three cases, their signals would be much smaller than the anthropogenic greenhouse gas effect on Earth’s radiation budget during the coming century.

Satellite Observations of the Earth’s Radiation Budget Variability

1987 ◽  
pp. 262-267
Author(s):  
G. I. Marchuk ◽  
K. Ya. Kondratyev ◽  
V. V. Kozoderov ◽  
O. A. Avaste ◽  
O. Yu. Kärner
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Earth’S Radiation Budget

Characteristics of the earth's radiation budget derived from the first year of data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary G. Gibson ◽  
Frederick M. Denn ◽  
David W. Young ◽  
Edwin F. Harrison ◽  
Patrick Minnis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Budget ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Earth’S Radiation Budget ◽  
Earth Radiation

A history of presatellite investigations of the Earth's Radiation Budget

1986 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garry E. Hunt ◽  
Robert Kandel ◽  
Ann T. Mecherikunnel
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Budget ◽  
History Of ◽  
Earth’S Radiation Budget

scholarly journals Metrology of the Solar Spectral Irradiance at the Top Of Atmosphere in the Near Infrared Measured at Mauna Loa Observatory: The PYR-ILIOS campaign

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno Pereira ◽  
David Bolsée ◽  
Peter Sperfeld ◽  
Sven Pape ◽  
Dominique Sluse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Solar Physics ◽  
Solar Spectrum ◽  
Spectral Irradiance ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Calibration Source ◽  
Error Budget ◽  
Mauna Loa ◽  
Solar Spectral Irradiance ◽  
Earth’S Radiation Budget

Abstract. The near infrared (NIR) part of the solar spectrum is of prime importance for the solar physics and climatology, directly intervening in the Earth's radiation budget. Despite its major role, available solar spectral irradiance (SSI) NIR datasets, space-borne or ground based, present discrepancies caused by instrumental or methodological reasons. We present new results obtained from the PYR-ILIOS campaign, which is a replication of the previous IRSPERAD campaign which took place in 2011 at the Izaña Observatory (IZO). We used the same instrument and primary calibration source of spectral irradiance. A new site was chosen for PYR-ILIOS: the Mauna-Loa observatory in Hawaii (3397 m asl), approximately 1000 m higher than IZO. Relatively to IRSPERAD, the methodology of monitoring the traceability to the primary calibration source was improved. The results as well as a detailed error budget are presented. We demonstrate that the most recent results, from PYR-ILIOS and other space-borne and ground-based experiments show an NIR SSI lower than ATLAS3 for wavelengths above 1.6 μm.

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