A51P:
The Surface Energy Budget: Influences on Spatiotemporal Magnitude and Variability I

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Session ID#: 30988

Session Description:
The surface energy budget is a key determinant in the climate system, being the primary integrating quantity of climate process and change, starting with downwelling radiation bearing the footprint of all changes in atmospheric composition including greenhouse gases, clouds, and aerosols. We invite papers on all facets 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 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 climatology and trends, including the solar dimming and brightening phenomenon, and their causes are of interest along with other validated proxy means to represent the surface energy components.
Primary Convener:  Charles N. Long, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Martin Wild, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
Chairs:  Charles N. Long, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison:  Charles N. Long, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Uncertainty in regional and zonal monthly mean downward surface irradiances from Edition 4.0 CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) data product (Invited) (229162)
Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, David A Rutan, SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, Fred G Rose, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA, United States and Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Examination of Regional Trends in Cloud Properties over Surface Sites Derived from MODIS and AVHRR using the CERES Cloud Algorithm (295739)
William L Smith Jr1, Patrick Minnis2, Kristopher M Bedka3, Sunny Sun-Mack4, Yan Chen4, David R Doelling2, Seiji Kato1 and David A Rutan5, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States, (5)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States
The Influence of Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols on the Surface Heat and Moisture Budgets. (Invited) (264464)
V Ramaswamy1, Stuart Freidenreich2, Paul A Ginoux3, Yi Ming4, David Paynter5, Geeta Persad6 and M Daniel Schwarzkopf5, (1)NOAA/OAR/ GFDL, Princeton, United States, (2)GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (5)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States
How Models Simulate the Radiative Effect in the Transition Zone of the Aerosol-Cloud Continuum (238307)
Josep Calbo Angrill, University of Girona, Physics, Girona, Spain, Josep-Abel González, University of Girona, Girona, Spain, Charles N. Long, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Allison C McComiskey, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
On Averaging Timescales for the Surface Energy Budget Closure Problem (245690)
Andrey A Grachev1, Chris W Fairall2, Ola P G Persson3, Taneil Uttal2, Byron Blomquist1 and Katherine McCaffrey1, (1)NOAA ESRL / University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA ESRL / University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, United States
Contributions of Surface Solar Radiation and Precipitation to the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Surface and Air Warming in China from 1960 to 2003 (238506)
DU Jizeng1, Kaicun Wang2, Jiankai Wang3, Qian Ma2 and Kaicun Wang, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)BNU Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (3)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Fine Scale Variability of Surface Broadband and Spectral Albedo Over the Southern Great Plains (241552)
Larry K Berg1, Charles N. Long2, Evgueni Kassianov3, Alyssa Ann Matthews4, Albert Mendoza5, Fan Mei, PhD6, Jason M Tomlinson7, John M Hubbe5, Joseph Olson8 and Jerome D Fast5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)PNNL, Richland, VA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (7)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Snow driven Radiative Forcing in High Latitude Areas of Disturbance Using Higher Resolution Albedo Products from Landsat and Sentinel-2 (280023)
Angela Erb1, Zhan Li1, Crystal Schaaf2, Zhuosen Wang3 and Brendan M Rogers4, (1)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States

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