A23K:
Improved Understanding of the Surface Energy Balance and the Spatiotemporal Variation of Its Components I


Session ID#: 11018

Session Description:
The surface radiative energy budget is a key determinant in the climate system. As such, it is imperative that this budget and the influences on the budget be understood and well documented. We invite papers on all aspects of the global and regional surface energy budgets based on surface measurements, satellite-derived estimates, reanalysis products, and climate model simulations. Emphasis is placed on all aspects of field measurements of atmospheric radiation and non-radiative components (e.g., latent and sensible heat fluxes) including spatial and temporal variations. Related studies based on changes in the cloud and aerosol forcing are also welcome. Special attention will be given to papers dealing with the solar dimming/brightening phenomenon. As well, papers that use validated proxy data to spatially and temporally extend our knowledge on the variations in some of the surface energy components (e.g., sunshine duration, pan evaporation, visibility or tree-rings) are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Conveners:  Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Charles N. Long, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States; NOAA OAR ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain and Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1694 Instruments and techniques [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Relationships Among Top-of-atmosphere Radiation and Atmospheric State Variables in Observations and CESM (Invited) (59131)
Kevin E Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Climate change from the perspective of the surface energy balance and global hydrologic cycle (66161)
V Ramaswamy, NOAA/OAR/ GFDL, Princeton, United States, Yi Ming, Boston College, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Chestnut Hill, United States and M Daniel Schwarzkopf, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
The global mean energy balance under cloud-free conditions: an assessment based on direct observations and CMIP5 models (67075)
Martin Wild1, Maria Zita Hakuba1, Doris Folini2 and Charles N. Long3, (1)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Evidence of Clear-Sky Daylight Whitening: Are we already conducting geoengineering? (59257)
Charles N. Long, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Connor J. Flynn, PNNL, Richland, United States and Jim Barnard, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Comparisons of Ship-based Observations of Air-Sea Energy Budgets with Gridded Flux Products (Invited) (60369)
Chris W Fairall, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States and Byron Blomquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
A Decade of Surface Solar Radiation Deposition Across the Pacific Northwest (83064)
Thomas P Ackerman, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States, Laura M Hinkelman, Univ of WA-JISAO, Seattle, WA, United States and Nevin Schaeffer, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, United States
Radiation Budget Profiles measured through the Atmosphere with a Return Glider Radiosonde (72435)
Rolf Philipona, MeteoSwiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Zurich, Switzerland, Andreas Kraeuchi, ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland and Rigel Kivi, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space and Earth Observation Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Finnish Meteorological Institute, Arctic Research, 99600 Sodankylä, Finland
Decadal variability of surface solar radiation over China (68198)
Kaicun Wang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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