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    Evaluating surface radiation fluxes observed from satellites in the southeastern Pacific Ocean

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    Date
    2018-02-20
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    Pinker, Rachel T.  Concept link
    Zhang, B.  Concept link
    Weller, Robert A.  Concept link
    Chen, Wen  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10233
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    https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076805
    DOI
    10.1002/2017GL076805
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     Surface radiation; Flux; Buoy; Satellite; Stratus; Comparison 
    Abstract
    This study is focused on evaluation of current satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface radiative fluxes in a climatically important region. It uses unique observations from the STRATUS Ocean Reference Station buoy in a region of persistent marine stratus clouds 1,500 km off northern Chile during 2000–2012. The study shows that current satellite estimates are in better agreement with buoy observations than model outputs at a daily time scale and that satellite data depict well the observed annual cycle in both shortwave and longwave surface radiative fluxes. Also, buoy and satellite estimates do not show any significant trend over the period of overlap or any interannual variability. This verifies the stability and reliability of the satellite data and should make them useful to examine El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability influences on surface radiative fluxes at the STRATUS site for longer periods for which satellite record is available.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 45 (2018): 2404-2412, doi:10.1002/2017GL076805.
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    Geophysical Research Letters 45 (2018): 2404-2412
     

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