Arctic clouds and surface radiation
Clouds regulate the Earth’s radiation budget, both by reflecting part of the incoming sunlight leading to cooling and by absorbing and emitting infrared radiation which tends to have a warming effect. Globally averaged, at the top of the atmosphere the cloud radiative effect is to cool the climate,...
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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
2015
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Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-185357 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-185357 http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/18535/zygmuntowska_acp_2012.pdf |