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Articles | Volume 25, issue 8
Articles | Volume 25, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4419-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4419-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 8
Research article
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23 Apr 2025
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2025

Mechanisms of surface solar irradiance variability under broken clouds

Wouter Mol and Chiel van Heerwaarden

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Sunlight varies often and quickly under broken cloud cover, and every cloud field creates a unique pattern of sunlight on the surface below. These variations affect many processes in the Earth system, from photosynthesis and chemistry to cloud formation itself. The exact way in which cloud particles interact with sunlight is complex and expensive to calculate. We demonstrate a simplified framework which explains how sunlight changes for potentially any cloud field.
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