Articles | Volume 24, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-4157-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-4157-2024
Research article
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08 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 08 Apr 2024

Evaluation of downward and upward solar irradiances simulated by the Integrated Forecasting System of ECMWF using airborne observations above Arctic low-level clouds

Hanno Müller, André Ehrlich, Evelyn Jäkel, Johannes Röttenbacher, Benjamin Kirbus, Michael Schäfer, Robin J. Hogan, and Manfred Wendisch

Data sets

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service global inversion optimized greenhouse gas fluxes and concentrations CAMS https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-greenhouse-gas-inversion

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service global reanalysis (EAC4) CAMS https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-reanalysis-eac4

Aircraft measurements of spectral solar up- and downward irradiances in the Arctic during the ACLOUD campaign 2017 Evelyn Jäkel et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899177

Airborne radar reflectivity and brightness temperature measurements with POLAR 5 during ACLOUD in May and June 2017 Leif-Leonard Kliesch and Mario Mech https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899565

Liquid Water Path over sea ice free Arctic ocean derived from passive microwave airborne measurements during ACLOUD in May/June 2017 Leif-Leonard Kliesch and Mario Mech https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.933387

Cloud top altitude retrieved from Lidar measurements during ACLOUD at 1 second resolution Birte Solveig Kulla et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932454

AMSR2 ASI sea ice concentration data, Arctic, version 5.4 (NetCDF) (July 2012 - December 2019) Christian Melsheimer and Gunnar Spreen https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.898399

SID-3 1 Hz size distribution of cloud particles during the ACLOUD campaign in 2017 Martin Schnaiter and Emma Järvinen https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.900261

Aircraft measurements of broadband irradiance during the ACLOUD campaign in 2017 Johannes Stapf et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.900442

ECC ozonesonde measurements from Ny-Aalesund (Svalbard) Peter von der Gathen https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/ndacc/data.html?station=ny.alesund/ames/o3sonde/

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A weather model is used to compare solar radiation with measurements from an aircraft campaign in the Arctic. Model and observations agree on the downward radiation but show differences in the radiation reflected by the surface and the clouds, which in the model is too low above sea ice and too high above open ocean. The model–observation bias is reduced above open ocean by a realistic fraction of clouds and less cloud liquid water and above sea ice by less dark sea ice and more cloud droplets.
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