An integrated terrestrial ecosystem model and an atmospheric radiative transfer module are developed and applied to evaluate aerosol direct radiative effects on carbon dynamics of global terrestrial ecosystems during 2003 2010. The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer measurements of key atmosphere parameters have been used to quantify aerosol effects on downward solar radiation. Simul...

RAdiation transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) was designed as an on-going mechanism to benchmark radiation transfer (RT) models used to simulate the transfer of radiation at or near the Earth's terrestrial surface, i.e. in plant canopies and over soil surfaces [1]. For the future phases of intercomparisons, one of the expected goals would be to investigate the potential of RT models to reprod...