Review on estimation of land surface radiation and energy budgets from ground measurement, remote sensing and model simulations

S Liang, K Wang, X Zhang… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Land surface radiation and energy budgets are critical components of any land surface
models that characterize hydrological, ecological and biogeochemical processes. The …

Regional climate modeling on European scales: a joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble

S Kotlarski, K Keuler, OB Christensen… - Geoscientific Model …, 2014 - gmd.copernicus.org
EURO-CORDEX is an international climate downscaling initiative that aims to provide high-
resolution climate scenarios for Europe. Here an evaluation of the ERA-Interim-driven EURO …

The global energy balance from a surface perspective

M Wild, D Folini, C Schär, N Loeb, EG Dutton… - Climate dynamics, 2013 - Springer
In the framework of the global energy balance, the radiative energy exchanges between
Sun, Earth and space are now accurately quantified from new satellite missions. Much less …

Variability of the surface radiation budget over the United States from 1996 through 2011 from high‐quality measurements

JA Augustine, EG Dutton - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Sixteen years of high‐quality surface radiation budget (SRB) measurements over seven US
stations are summarized. The network average total surface net radiation increases by+ 8.2 …

Remote sensing of cloud top pressure/height from SEVIRI: analysis of ten current retrieval algorithms

U Hamann, A Walther, B Baum… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - amt.copernicus.org
The role of clouds remains the largest uncertainty in climate projections. They influence
solar and thermal radiative transfer and the earth's water cycle. Therefore, there is an urgent …

[HTML][HTML] Microscale numerical prediction over Montreal with the Canadian external urban modeling system

S Leroyer, S Bélair, J Mailhot… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Microscale Numerical Prediction over Montreal with the Canadian External Urban Modeling
System in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 50 Issue 12 (2011) Jump to …

Numerical simulation of surface solar radiation over Southern Africa. Part 1: Evaluation of regional and global climate models

C Tang, B Morel, M Wild, B Pohl, B Abiodun… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
This study evaluates the performance of climate models in reproducing surface solar
radiation (SSR) over Southern Africa (SA) by validating five Regional Climate Models (RCM …

Regional climate downscaling

RL Wilby, HJ Fowler - Modelling the impact of climate change on …, 2010 - books.google.com
The term'downscaling'refers to methods by which local-toregional-scale (10–100km) climate
information is derived from coarse resolution (> 100km) atmospheric data or global climate …

Surface energy partitioning over four dominant vegetation types across the United States in a coupled regional climate model (Weather Research and Forecasting …

Y Lu, LM Kueppers - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate representation of surface energy partitioning is crucial for studying land surface
processes and the climatic influence of land cover and land use change using coupled …

The radiation budget in a regional climate model

S Kothe, A Dobler, A Beck, B Ahrens - Climate dynamics, 2011 - Springer
The long-and short-wave components of the radiation budget are among the most important
quantities in climate modelling. In this study, we evaluated the radiation budget at the earth's …