A34C:
Improved Understanding of the Surface Energy Balance and the Spatiotemporal Variation of Its Components I

Session ID#: 2238

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States and Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
Primary Convener:  Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, University of Girona, Girona, Spain; IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Co-conveners:  Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States and Nikos Hatzianastassiou, Univ Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
OSPA Liaison:  Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A34C-01
Evaluation of CERES surface irradiance products (Invited) (17082)
Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Fred G Rose, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, United States, David A Rutan, ADNET System, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, United States, David R Doelling, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, Alexander Radkevich, ADNET Systems Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States and Seung-Hee Ham, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., Hampton, United States
A34C-02
The Surface Energy Balance and its Representation in CMIP5 Models (15543)
Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
A34C-03
Can Surface Energy Budgets be Balanced on Continental Scales Using Observational Datasets? (Invited) (8198)
Tristan S L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States and NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS) Science Team
A34C-04
Evaluation of the NASA SRB Surface Fluxes as a Function of Meteorological State (29918)
Thomas P Ackerman, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States and Laura M Hinkelman, Univ of WA-JISAO, Seattle, WA, United States
A34C-05
Similarities in the Spatial Pattern of the Surface Flux Response to Present-Day Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols (10523)
Geeta Persad, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States, Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and V Ramaswamy, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
A34C-06
Surface Forcing from CH4 at the North Slope of Alaska and Southern Great Plains Sites (20391)
William Drew Collins, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences, Berkeley, United States and David D Turner, NOAA Norman, Norman, OK, United States
A34C-07
Changes in Surface Radiation Flux Associated with Cloud Variability over Land during the Past 40+ Years (Invited) (3723)
Joel R Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
A34C-08
Multi-decadal trends of solar radiation reaching the surface: What is the role of aerosols? (Invited) (4860)
Mian Chin1, Thomas L Diehl2, Huisheng Bian3, Hongbin Yu1,4, Yun Qian5, Martin Wild6, David G Streets7 and Paul W Stackhouse Jr8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory (Code 614), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (6)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (7)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
A34C-10
Surface Radiation Budget Variability at Climatic Time Scales (27979)
Rachel T Pinker, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Yingtao Ma, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States and Eric Nussbaumer, NCAR/ACD, Boulder, CO, United States
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