Tropical free-tropospheric humidity differences and their effect on the clear-sky radiation budget in global strom-resolving models
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DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10506322.1
Abstract: Reducing the model spread in free-tropospheric relative humidity (RH) and its response to warming is a crucial step towards reducing the uncertainty in clear-sky climate sensitivity, a step that is... read more here.
Keywords: free tropospheric; clear sky; tropical free; humidity differences ... See more keywords
Aerosol radiative effects from observations and modelling over the Yangtze River Basin, China from 2001 to 2015
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DOI: 10.1002/joc.6033
Abstract: In this study, a quantitative assessment of clear‐sky aerosol direct radiative effects (ADREs) at the surface over the Yangtze River Basin (YRB), China was conducted based on Mesoscale Atmospheric Global Irradiance Code (MAGIC) radiation code… read more here.
Keywords: per year; yangtze river; adre; year ... See more keywords
Assimilation of surface‐sensitive bands' clear‐sky radiance data using retrieved surface temperatures from geostationary satellites
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DOI: 10.1002/qj.4469
Abstract: Clear‐sky radiances (CSRs) derived from observations made by imager sensors on board geostationary satellites are widely used in most operational numerical weather prediction systems. CSRs have data on tropospheric water vapour and temperatures, and the… read more here.
Keywords: band; geostationary satellites; surface; clear sky ... See more keywords
Indoor and outdoor particle concentration distributions of a typical meeting room during haze and clear-sky days
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DOI: 10.1007/s11431-016-0621-7
Abstract: Air quality has increasingly been a great concern all over the world, and the good command of indoor and outdoor air qualities is of benefit to the air pollution alleviation by various measures. In this… read more here.
Keywords: clear sky; particle; particle concentration; sky days ... See more keywords
Simulations of the effect of intensive biomass burning in July 2015 on Arctic radiative budget
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DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.10.015
Abstract: Abstract The impact of biomass burning (BB) on aerosol optical properties and radiative budget in the polar region following an intense boreal fire event in North America in July 2015 is explored in this paper.… read more here.
Keywords: toa; sky conditions; clear sky; surface ... See more keywords
Towards the intrahour forecasting of direct normal irradiance using sky-imaging data
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00598
Abstract: Increasing power plant efficiency through improved operation is key in the development of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies. To this end, one of the most challenging topics remains accurately forecasting the solar resource at a… read more here.
Keywords: normal irradiance; clear sky; dni; persistence ... See more keywords
Global clear sky near-surface imagery from multiple satellite daily imagery time series
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.08.013
Abstract: Abstract We develop a new statistically-robust adaptive regression method (SARM) to extract clear sky true color imagery, approximating the near-surface imagery, derived from multiple satellite daily imagery time series, while avoiding artifacts due to clouds… read more here.
Keywords: clear sky; surface; surface imagery; imagery ... See more keywords
Active learning regularization increases clear sky retrieval rates for vegetation biophysical variables using Sentinel-2 data
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112241
Abstract: Abstract For typical cloud conditions, a clear sky retrieval rate (CSRR) >67% is required to meet the Global Climate Observing System temporal interval requirement of 10 days when mapping canopy biophysical variables (‘variables’). Physically based algorithms… read more here.
Keywords: sl2p; active learning; variables using; clear sky ... See more keywords
Aerosol transmittance for clear-sky solar irradiance models: Review and validation of an accurate universal parameterization
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111061
Abstract: Abstract Accurate modeling of solar radiation under cloudless situations is important to facilitate the development and exploitation of the renewable solar resource worldwide. However, many existing clear-sky solar radiation models perform inconsistently under varying aerosol… read more here.
Keywords: parameterization; clear sky; sky solar; aerosol transmittance ... See more keywords
A multi-model benchmarking of direct and global clear-sky solar irradiance predictions at arid sites using a reference physical radiative transfer model
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DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2018.06.048
Abstract: Abstract This study provides a comparison of the predictions of fifteen clear-sky irradiance models against those from the RRTMG radiative transfer. RRTMG is selected as the benchmarking reference here because its code is open source… read more here.
Keywords: irradiance; arid sites; clear sky; model ... See more keywords
Solar radiation estimation at high latitudes: Assessment of the CMSAF databases, ASR and ERA5
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DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.02.058
Abstract: Abstract There is a growing demand for the estimation of solar energy potential at high latitude locations. This study compares four datasets; Cloud, Albedo, Radiation dataset Edition 2 (CLARA), Surface Solar Radiation dataset – Heliosat… read more here.
Keywords: clear sky; radiation; era5; solar radiation ... See more keywords