INFRARED PARAMETERIZATION AND SIMPLE CLIMATE MODELS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Empirical studies of total outgoing infrared radiation IR and surface temperature T have shown them to be well correlated for large time and space scales. An analysis of one year of Nimbus-6 data shows that the simple form IR = A + BT (with A = 204 W m-2, B = 1.93 W m-2K-1) explains 90% of the area-weighted variance in the annual mean and annual cycle of the zonally averaged IR field. The geographical distribution of the annual cycle in IR shows a large amplitude over the continental interiors, as is found in the observed temperature field. -from Authors

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF CLIMATE AND APPLIED METEOROLOGY

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • SHORT, D. A., NORTH, G. R., BESS, T. D., & SMITH, G. L.

citation count

  • 29

complete list of authors

  • SHORT, DA||NORTH, GR||BESS, TD||SMITH, GL

publication date

  • August 1984