The spectral signature of cloud spatial structure in shortwave irradiance

Song, Shi; Schmidt, K. Sebastian; Pilewskie, Peter; King, Michael D.; Heidinger, Andrew K.; Walther, Andi; Iwabuchi, Hironobu; Wind, Gala; Coddington, Odele M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13791-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 21

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 13791–13806, 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13791-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 13791–13806, 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13791-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 21

Research article 08 Nov 2016

Research article | 08 Nov 2016

The spectral signature of cloud spatial structure in shortwave irradiance

Shi Song et al.

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The radiative effects of spatially complex cloud fields are notoriously difficult to estimate and are afflicted with errors up to ±50 % of the incident solar radiation. We find that horizontal photon transport, the leading cause for these three-dimensional effects, manifests itself through a spectral fingerprint – a new observable that holds promise for reducing the errors associated with spatial complexity by moving the problem to the spectral dimension.

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