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Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
About: Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Aerosol & Stratosphere. The organization has 107 authors who have published 263 publications receiving 26434 citations.
Topics: Aerosol, Stratosphere, Ozone depletion, Ozone layer, Polar vortex
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TL;DR: In this paper, the entrainment process of water vapor into the dust layer during Asian dust events was examined by using a PSU/NCAR MM5 together with the backward trajectory model, radiosonde data and remotely sensed aerosol vertical distribution data.
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TL;DR: In this article, the downward diffuse and direct normal irradiance computed by a two-stream model with measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory when the atmosphere was close to a molecular atmosphere were compared.
Abstract: We compare the downward diffuse and direct normal irradiance computed by a two-stream model with measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory when the atmosphere was close to a molecular atmosphere. The modeled downward diffuse irradiance agrees with measurements taken by a shaded pyranometer within the uncertainty of the measurement. Therefore, the two-stream approximation is adequate for computing the downward diffuse irradiance in a molecular atmosphere. This result also indicates that neglecting the state of polarization introduces a negligible error in the irradiance computation.
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TL;DR: This article evaluated a bulk PBL parameterization locally by prescribing horizontal advective tendencies from high-frequency regional meteorological analyses, and running the PBL formulation in a single-column version of a climate model.
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TL;DR: In this article, column aerosol optical depth (AOD) and surface shortwave irradiance (SSI) measurements relevant to computation of the aerosol surface radiative forcing (ΔF) and forcing efficiency (β) were taken as part of the Gosan surface site in Korea in April 2001.
Abstract: [1] Column aerosol optical depth (AOD) and surface shortwave irradiance (SSI) measurements relevant to computation of the aerosol surface radiative forcing (ΔF) and forcing efficiency (β) were taken as part of Aerosol Characterization Experiment-Asia (ACE-Asia) at the Gosan surface site in Korea in April 2001. We compare the AOD and SSI derived from three different types of Sun photometers and three sets of radiometers. We also estimate the ΔF and β using two methods and quantify the observational uncertainties of these parameters. A comparison of the AOD at 500 nm shows that the three Sun photometers generally agreed within 0.014 (mean), 0.0142 (bias), and 0.0298 (root mean square) for coincident observations. Over the course of the comparison, the mean differences between the SSI measurements were 1.6, 11.7, and 10.1 Wm−2 for direct, diffuse and global irradiances, respectively. However, for both the AOD and the SSI comparisons, relatively high instantaneous differences between the instruments were apparent on days with heavy dust at the surface. The mean β and associated deviations, which were estimated by the combinations of different instrument-derived AODs and SSIs, for simultaneous observation data at a 60° solar zenith angle are −79.50 ± 3.92 and −82.57 ± 5.70 Wm−2/τ500 for globalshaded (sum of direct and diffuse irradiances) and globalunshaded (measured by the unshaded pyranometer) irradiances, respectively. The uncertainties in β associated with uncertainties in the AOD and SSI (in parentheses) for globalshaded and globalunshaded irradiance are about 8.6% and 3.2% (10.7%), respectively. A 2% difference between the measured global irradiances for a given 9 days was translated into an uncertainty of 19% in ΔF. This difference in ΔF between instruments caused a 14% deviation in β.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the efficiency of dehydration during horizontal advection in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) and found that drier air parcels were exposed to lower temperatures than were more humid ones during advective.
Abstract: Water vapor observations by chilled-mirror hygrometers were conducted at Bandung, Indonesia (6.90° S, 107.60° E) and Tarawa, Kiribati (1.35° N, 172.91° E) in December 2003 to examine the efficiency of dehydration during horizontal advection in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL). Trajectory analyses based on bundles of isentropic trajectories suggest that the modification of air parcels' identity due to irreversible mixing by the branching-out and merging-in of nearby trajectories is found to be an important factor, in addition to the routes air parcels follow, for interpreting the water vapor concentrations observed by chilled-mirror frostpoint hygrometers in the TTL. Clear correspondence between the observed water vapor concentration and the estimated temperature history of air parcels is found showing that drier air parcels were exposed to lower temperatures than were more humid ones during advection. Although the number of observations is quite limited, the water content in the observed air parcels on many occasions was more than that expected from the minimum saturation mixing ratio during horizontal advection prior to sonde observations.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Edward J. Dlugokencky | 72 | 207 | 27280 |
Samuel J. Oltmans | 70 | 192 | 16132 |
Stephen A. Montzka | 69 | 219 | 19055 |
John A. Ogren | 68 | 197 | 16355 |
Pieter P. Tans | 63 | 163 | 19286 |
John B. Miller | 54 | 168 | 13703 |
Anna M. Michalak | 50 | 188 | 9646 |
Arlyn E. Andrews | 49 | 143 | 8024 |
Holger Vömel | 48 | 166 | 7707 |
Michael H. Bergin | 47 | 141 | 7749 |
Terry Deshler | 46 | 182 | 7438 |
Joyce M. Harris | 45 | 92 | 6285 |
Wouter Peters | 44 | 141 | 11055 |
Anne Jefferson | 44 | 82 | 4932 |
Bryan J. Johnson | 44 | 94 | 5840 |