期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 48, 期 14, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093369
关键词
cloud 3D radiative effects; direct-diffuse fluxes; surface observations of solar radiation
资金
- ERASMUS+ program
This study provides observational evidence for the importance of 3D effects in the horizontal transport of light in the presence of clouds, and demonstrates that only radiative transfer schemes that account for these 3D effects are able to accurately reproduce the observed direct-diffuse partition of solar fluxes.
Numerical experiments have revealed the importance of horizontal transport of light in the presence of clouds (3D effects), with consequences for climate, weather, and solar resource availability predictions. Yet, analysis of 3D effects from observations remain sparse because of the difficulty to isolate the effect of horizontal transport in radiation measurements. In this study, we provide observational evidence for 3D effects based on the direct-diffuse partition of surface solar fluxes. It is compared to outputs from the ecRad radiative transfer scheme run on retrieved cloud profiles. The direct-beam calculation takes careful account of the field-of-view of the pyrheliometer to ensure consistency between observed and modeled direct fluxes. Only the solver that accounts for 3D effects is able to reproduce the observed mean direct-diffuse partition as a function of solar zenith angle and cloud cover, in particular at large solar zenith angles where cloud sides intercept most of the direct beam.
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