An update on Earth's energy balance in light of the latest global observations

By Graeme L. Stephens, Juilin Li, Martin Wild, C. Clayson, Norman G. Loeb, Seiji Kato, Tristan L'Ecuyer, P. Stackhouse, Matthew Lebsock, T. Andrews. 2012

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Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR Climate Model (2020, background): “precipitation rate attributable to an underestimation of light rain over the tropical oceans (Berg et al., 2010; Hourdin et al., 2020a; Stephens et al., 2012).”
Estimating surface solar irradiance from satellites: Past, present, and future perspectives (2019, background): “(1993a) grossly agreed with later estimates of 160–165Wm (Loeb and Wielicki, 2016; Stephens et al., 2012; Wild et al., 2013).”
Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive (2014, methodology): “Updates of the TOA radiation fluxes and cloud radiative forcing data from ERBE [Harrison et al., 1990] to the CERES data [Stephens et al., 2012; Loeb et al., 2009] slightly improve the match to the model, but the LW CRF is SCHMIDT ET AL.”
CERES Synoptic Product: Methodology and Validation of Surface Radiant Flux (2015, methodology): “Stephens et al. (2012), Kato et al. (2011), and Henderson et al. (2013) use combined CERES, MODIS, CloudSat, and Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and InfraredPathfinder SatelliteObservations (CALIPSO) data to provide improved instantaneous surface radiative fluxes.”
The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution (2019, background): “(2012) note that the GPCP estimate may be too low due to systematic underestimations in the satellite retrievals (Stephens et al., 2012; Trenberth et al., 2009).”
The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early Twenty-First Century (2015, background): “Precipitation and evaporation, for example, are very similar to those reported by Trenberth et al. (2009), while sensible heating and DSR are in closer agreement with Stephens et al. (2012b).”
CMIP5 historical simulations (1850–2012) with GISS ModelE2 (2014, background): “The total increase since the preindustrial is on the order of 0.02 mm day21 compared to the observed global annual mean near 3 mm day21 [Stephens et al., 2012].”
Surface Irradiances of Edition 4.0 Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Data Product (2018, methodology): “…vary depending on satellite data products used in the estimate and the method to adjust fluxes to balance energy budget (Trenberth et al. 2009; Stephens et al. 2012; Wild et al. 2013; L’Ecuyer et al. 2015), the global annual mean surface net shortwave irradiance is 165 6 6Wm22 and global…”
The global energy balance from a surface perspective (2013, background): “1, which lies in between the values of Trenberth et al. (2009) (396 Wm-2), and Stephens et al. (2012b) (398 Wm-2).”
The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Description and Results at High Resolution (2019, neutral): “Thus, while E3SMv1 global-average precipitation is larger than the Rodell et al. (2015) estimate used in Table 5 and the GPCP estimate used in Figure 10, it is within uncertainty bounds for Stephens et al. (2012) and Wild et al. (2012).”