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DOI | 10.5194/acp-21-1015-2021 |
3D radiative heating of tropical upper tropospheric cloud systems derived from synergistic A-Train observations and machine learning | |
Stubenrauch C.J.; Caria G.; Protopapadaki S.E.; Hemmer F. | |
发表日期 | 2021 |
ISSN | 1680-7316 |
起始页码 | 1015 |
结束页码 | 1034 |
卷号 | 21期号:2 |
英文摘要 | Upper tropospheric (UT) cloud systems constructed from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) cloud data provide a horizontal emissivity structure, allowing the convective core to be linked to anvil properties. By using machine learning techniques, we composed a horizontally complete picture of the radiative heating rates deduced from CALIPSO lidar and CloudSat radar measurements, which are only available along narrow nadir tracks. To train the artificial neural networks, we combined the simultaneous AIRS, CALIPSO and CloudSat data with ERA-Interim meteorological reanalysis data in the tropics over a period of 4 years. The resulting non-linear regression models estimate the radiative heating rates as a function of about 40 cloud, atmospheric and surface properties, with a column-integrated mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.8 K d (0.5 K d) for cloudy scenes and 0.4 K d (0.3 K d) for clear sky in the longwave (shortwave) spectral domain. Developing separate models for (i) high opaque clouds, (ii) cirrus, (iii) mid- A nd low-level clouds and (iv) clear sky, independently over ocean and over land, leads to a small improvement, when considering the profiles. These models were applied to the whole AIRS cloud dataset, combined with ERA-Interim, to build 3D radiative heating rate fields. Over the deep tropics, UT clouds have a net radiative heating effect of about 0.3 K d throughout the troposphere from 250 hPa downward. This radiative heating enhances the column-integrated latent heating by about %. While in warmer regions the net radiative heating profile is nearly completely driven by deep convective cloud systems, it is also influenced by low-level clouds in the cooler regions. The heating rates of the convective systems in both regions also differ: In the warm regions the net radiative heating by the thicker cirrus anvils is vertically more extended, and their surrounding thin cirrus heat the entire troposphere by about 0.5 K d. The 15-year time series reveal a slight increase of the vertical heating in the upper and middle troposphere by convective systems with tropical surface temperature warming, which can be linked to deeper systems. In addition, the layer near the tropopause is slightly more heated by increased thin cirrus during periods of surface warming. While the relative coverage of convective systems is relatively stable with surface warming, their depth increases, measured by a decrease of their near-top temperature of |
语种 | 英语 |
来源期刊 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/168814 |
作者单位 | Laboratoire de Méteórologie Dynamique/Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, (LMD/IPSL), Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Cnrs, Paris, France; Coopetic, Paris, France |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Stubenrauch C.J.,Caria G.,Protopapadaki S.E.,et al. 3D radiative heating of tropical upper tropospheric cloud systems derived from synergistic A-Train observations and machine learning[J],2021,21(2). |
APA | Stubenrauch C.J.,Caria G.,Protopapadaki S.E.,&Hemmer F..(2021).3D radiative heating of tropical upper tropospheric cloud systems derived from synergistic A-Train observations and machine learning.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,21(2). |
MLA | Stubenrauch C.J.,et al."3D radiative heating of tropical upper tropospheric cloud systems derived from synergistic A-Train observations and machine learning".Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21.2(2021). |
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