A23M:
Improvements toward Understanding the Surface Energy Balance and the Spatiotemporal Variation of Its Components I

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Session ID#: 16245

Session Description:
The surface radiative energy budget is a key determinant in the climate system. We invite papers on all aspects of the global and regional surface energy budgets based on surface observations, satellite-derived records, reanalysis data, and global and regional climate model simulations. Special emphasis is placed on all aspects of the field measurements of atmospheric radiation, as well as on the spatial and temporal variations of the different radiative and non-radiative (i.e. latent and sensible heat fluxes) components of the surface energy balance. Studies of the effects of cloud and aerosol forcing on surface energy, including solar dimming and brightening phenomenon and their causes are also welcome. 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 (such as records of sunshine duration, visual observations of clouds, pan evaporation, visibility or tree-rings), are also encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Martin Wild, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, Charles N. Long, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain
Chairs:  Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Martin Wild, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison:  Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States

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

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Comparison of Surface Turbulent Heat Fluxes Determined from Bulk Flux Parameterizations and Inferred from the Atmospheric Energy Budget Equation (Invited) (131947)
Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States and Hailan Wang, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
A New Estimate of Surface Fluxes and Implications, especially for Ocean Heat Transports (Invited) (123199)
Kevin E Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and John Fasullo, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
How do Greenhouse Gases Warm the Ocean? Investigation of the Response of the Ocean Thermal Skin Layer to Air-Sea Surface Heat Fluxes. (144420)
Elizabeth Wong, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Peter J Minnett, University of Miami, RSMAS, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States
Surface Energy Budget Disruption in the Northeast Pacific in Response to a Marine Heat Wave (191131)
Lauren Schmeisser1, Samantha A Siedlecki2, Thomas P Ackerman3 and Nicholas A Bond1, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Univ of Washington-JISAO, Seattle, United States, (3)Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States
Evaluation of the Reanalysis Surface Incident Shortwave Radiation Products from NCEP, ECMWF, GSFC, and JMA using Satellite and Surface Observations (145944)
Xiaotong Zhang1, Shunlin Liang2, Guoxin Wang1, Yunjun Yao1, Bo Jiang1 and Jie Cheng1, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
CHARACTERIZING SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET COMPONENTS IN URBAN REGIONS USING COMBINATION OF FLUX TOWER OBSERVATIONS AND SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENTS (187933)
Hamid Norouzi1, Brian Vant-Hull2, Prathap Ramamurthy2, Reginald Blake3 and Dr. Satya Prakash4, (1)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (3)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States, (4)Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Cloud-Induced Stabilization of Greenland Surface Melt (160379)
Wenshan Wang, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Charles S Zender, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science and Computer Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Dirk van As, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, Paul Smeets, Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands and Michiel R van den Broeke, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

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