Scientists have long been aware there is a need for a stochastic description of radiative transfer through media with statistically distributed parameters (Stephens 1984; Ramanathan et al. 1989; Stephens et al. 1991). This study used a shortwave stochastic band model to investigate radiative transfer through a broken cloud field for several days when low-lying fair-weather cumulus and cumulus f...

Tropical deep convection exhibits complex organization over a wide range of scales. This study investigates the relationships between the spatial organization of deep convection and the large-scale atmospheric state. By using several satellite datasets and reanalyses, and by defining a simple diagnostic of convective aggregation, relationships between the degree of convective aggregation and th...

We used radiation data taken during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Enhanced Shortwave Experiment (ARESE). We constructed the total irradiance by adding the average diffuse field irradiance measured by two shaded pyranometers and the direct beam irradiance multiplied by the cosine of the solar zenith angle. We used an empirical formula introduced by Michalsky et al. (1997) to correc...

The physical and mathematical model of the planetary heat balance is developed to establish the influence of the atmospheric transmission for the solar radiation in the shortwave spectrum range and for the surface IR radiation in the longwave spectrum range on the Earth’s climate. It is shown the possibility of the decreasing of the atmospheric and surface temperatures with the decreasing of th...

A method was proposed to estimate shortwave irradiance in rugged terrain, which was integrated to accurately consider the terrain and atmospheric key factors based on fine resolution DEM and MODIS atmospheric products. Experiments showed that the relative radiation deviation between the measured and the estimated data was 9.2% in Guantan Forest Observatory, Qilian Mountains.