Averaging of Infrared Cloud Opacities for Climate Modeling
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Vol. 35 (5) , 919-922
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1978)035<0919:aoicof>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Cloud amount, as a climate feedback mechanism, encompasses separate and competing albedo and infrared feedbacks. In the present note we illustrate that the relative role of the infrared feedback mechanism cannot be determined from a model calculation, unless the model has the capability of predicting how the amounts of individual cloud layers change in relation to a change in total cloud cover.Keywords
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