Toward Optimal Closure of the Earth's Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation Budget

By Norman, Loeb, Bruce, Wielicki, David, Doelling, L. Smith, Dennis, Keyes, Seiji Kato and 3 more. 2009

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Stephen A. Klein
2. M. Zelinka
3. Andrew Gettelman
4. Bjorn Stevens
5. D. Hartmann
6. Sandrine Bony
7. M. Webb
8. Martin Wild

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• ICON‐A, the Atmosphere Component of the ICON Earth System Model: I. Model Description (2018, background): “tune-1 the SW and LW radiative fluxes at TOA are both close to 240 W/m(2), as in CERES (version CERES-EBAFEd4.0; Kato et al., 2013; Loeb et al., 2009), with a small positive balance.”
• Improved Climate Simulation by MIROC5: Mean States, Variability, and Climate Sensitivity (2010, background): “2(hires) (240.0 W m22) and MIROC5 (237.6 W m22) show a larger net SW flux closer to the recent Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) estimate (240.5 W m22; Loeb et al. 2009).”
• CERES Synoptic Product: Methodology and Validation of Surface Radiant Flux (2015, methodology): “At the top of the atmosphere (TOA), satellite instruments such as the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) provide global observations of radiant energy reflected and emitted by Earth (Wielicki et al. 1996; Loeb et al. 2009; Doelling et al. 2013).”
• Evaluation of CMIP6 DECK Experiments With CNRM‐CM6‐1 (2019, neutral): “8.” described in Loeb et al. (2009).”
• 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.”
• Estimation of ECHAM5 climate model closure parameters with adaptive MCMC (2010, methodology): “The observational estimates are taken from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) dataset (Loeb et al., 2009).”
• Direct and semi-direct aerosol radiative effect on the Mediterranean climate variability using a coupled regional climate system model (2015, methodology): “At the top of the atmosphere (TOA), radiation is compared to Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System (CERES)– Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) data (Loeb et al. 2009) at a 1 1 resolution.”
• The global energy balance from a surface perspective (2013, methodology): “The global mean estimates for the components of the TOA radiation budget are based on the energy balanced and filled (EBAF) data set for the period 2001–2010 as part of the CERES mission, version EBAF 2.6r (Loeb et al. 2012).”
• LMDZ5B: the atmospheric component of the IPSL climate model with revisited parameterizations for clouds and convection (2013, background): “5 Note that this global unbalance is too small to be constrained by observation (Loeb et al, 2009).”