1-13: Impact of Clouds on the Radiation Balance

Figure 1 - Earth Radiation (Infrared Radiation)

Figure 2 - Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) monthly mean clear-sky longwave radiation exitance (LWRE) for April 1985.
Harrison, Edwin F., David R. Brooks, Patrick Minnis, Bruce A. Wielicki, W. Frank Staylor, Gary G. Gibson, David F. Young, Frederick M. Denn, and the ERBE Science Team, 1988: First estimates of the diurnal variation of longwave radiation from the multiple-satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. , 69, 1144-1151.

Figure 3 - Diurnal range of clear-sky LWRE for April 1985. Ibid.

Figure 4 - ERBE monthly mean LWRE for April 1985. Ibid.

Figure 5 - Diurnal range of LWRE from ERBE for April 1985. Ibid.

Figure 6 - Contour map of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) for 10 Januarys.
Bess, T. Dale, Louis Smith, and Thomas P. Charlock, 1989: A ten-year monthly data set of outgoing longwave radiation from Nimbus-6 and Nimbus-7 satellites. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 70, 480-489.

Figure 7 - Contour map of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) for 10 Julys. Ibid.

Figure 9 - Standard deviation map of change in interannual OLR for 10 summers (June, July, August) and winters (December January February). Ibid.

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