| DOI: | 10.1002/2017JD027146
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| 论文题名: | Scaling properties of observed and simulated satellite visible radiances |
| 作者: | Barker H.W.; Qu Z.; Bélair S.; Leroyer S.; Milbrandt J.A.; Vaillancourt P.A.
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| 刊名: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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| ISSN: | 2169897X
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| 出版年: | 2017
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Clouds
; Models
; Radiation
; Satellites
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| 英文摘要: | Structure functions Sq, which are related to power spectra and used to study turbulence, were computed for GOES-13 visible radiances measured on 16 May 2015 over French Guiana and adjacent Atlantic Ocean. The nested Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) numerical weather prediction (NWP) model was run for the same time and area. Cloud data generated by GEM over (300 km)2 domains, with one-way nesting ending at horizontal grid-spacing of 0.25 km, were operated on by a 3-D solar radiative transfer model with resulting radiances degraded to GOES-13 resolution (~1 km) and Sq computed for them, too. For GOES-13 radiances, scaling exponents ζ(2) associated with S2, for separation distances between 5 km and 25 km, were typically >0.6 for deep convective and marine boundary layer clouds and <0.4 for shallow cumuli over land. ζ(2) for GEM agreed well with GOES-13 for deep convective clouds. This suggests that the self-organizing properties of deep convection in GEM exhibit realistic geometric features, a potentially important point given the link between cloud structure and precipitation, with the latter being much more difficult to measure and assess than visible radiances. Regarding radiances for GEM's marine boundary layer clouds, their Sq differed markedly from GOES-13's; better resembling fair-weather cumulus. Likewise, GEM's shallow cumuli over land appear to have bypassed the "scattered" fair-weather stage and went straight into more organized convection. Thus, it appears that comparing time series of Sq for geostationary satellite data and corresponding modeled radiances has the potential to benefit assessment of cloud system-resolving models. ©2017 Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Environment. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/62762
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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作者单位: | Meteorological Research Division Environment and Climate Change Canada Toronto, Ontario Canada; Meteorological Research Division Environment and Climate Change Canada Dorval, Quebec Canada
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Barker H.W.,Qu Z.,Bélair S.,et al. Scaling properties of observed and simulated satellite visible radiances[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,2017-01-01
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