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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 19, 期 13, 页码 3207-3219出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3782.1
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Cloud characteristics at two sites on the North Slope of Alaska separated by similar to 100 km have been examined for the warmer months of 2001 - 03 using data collected from microwave radiometers, ceilometers, rotating shadowband radiometers, and pyranometers. Clouds at the inland site, Atqasuk, were found to have approximately 26% greater optical depths than those at the coastal site, Barrow, and the ratio of measured irradiance to clear-sky irradiance was nearly 20% larger at Barrow under cloudy conditions. It is hypothesized that a significant factor contributing to these differences is the upward fluxes of heat and water vapor over the wet tundra and lakes. Support for this hypothesis is found from the behavior of the liquid water paths for low clouds, which tend to be higher at Atqasuk than at Barrow for onshore winds but not for offshore ones, from differences in sensible heat fluxes, which are small but significant over the tundra but are nearly zero over the ocean adjacent to Barrow, and from the mixing ratios, which are significantly higher at Atqasuk than at Barrow. Results from a simple model further indicate that latent heat fluxes over the tundra and lakes can account for a significant fraction of the differences in the estimated boundary layer water content between Barrow and Atqasuk.
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