The long-term goal of this work is to increase the quantitative understanding of the partitioning of incident solar radiation by sea ice. The partitioning of shortwave radiation into components backscattered to the atmosphere, absorbed by the ice, and transmitted to the ocean is central to icealbedo feedback, the mean annual cycle of ice thickness, mechanical and biological properties of the ic...

[1] The influence of narrow optical resonances, which result from trapping of light rays via total internal reflection in water droplets, on the absorption of shortwave (SW) solar radiation has been estimated through high resolution Mie scattering calculations. Our results indicate that these resonances engender an increase in absorption of solar radiation by cloud droplets that is several W/m ...

Surface downward shortwave radiation (DSR) is a fundamental variable in determining the Earth's balance and essential many applications. Considerable efforts have been devoted to algorithm development, product generation, validation. However, few studies focused on comparing retrieval approaches, examining their strengths weaknesses, identifying most suitable scenarios for each approach. In thi...

A recently published paper by Roads et al (2003) describing the GCIP Water and Energy Balance Synthesis (WEBS) showed that the Variable Infiltration Capacity model (VIC) model under-simulates “observations” of net solar radiation by an average of 50 w/m in the summer months of 19961999 over the Mississippi basin. The net solar radiation “observations” used by Roads et al (2003) are a GOES-based...

Abstract. Both weather–climate models and ice cloud remote sensing applications need to obtain effective crystal scattering (ICS) properties the parameterization scheme. An irregularly shaped Voronoi ICS model has been suggested be in for several satellite programs, e.g., Himawari-8, GCOM-C (Global Change Observation Mission–Climate) EarthCARE (Earth Cloud Aerosol Radiation Explorer). As contin...

Pulsed shortwave diathermy, an electromagnetic therapy, has been in clinical use for acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain for many decades. Innovation, miniaturization and advances in technology have allowed for the development of a new generation of shortwave devices that deliver a localized, low fixed dose of shortwave therapy. Clinical research has shown that these novel shortwave devices ...