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- Title
Shortwave surface radiation budget network for observing small-scale cloud inhomogeneity fields.
- Authors
Madhavan, B. L.; Kalisch, J.; Macke, A.
- Abstract
As part of the High Definition Clouds and Precipitation for advancing Climate Prediction Observational Prototype Experiment (HOPE), a high spatial density network of 99 silicon photodiode pyranometers was set up around Jülich (10km×12km area) from April to July 2013, to capture the variability in the radiation field at the surface induced by small-scale cloud inhomogeneity. Each of these autonomously operated pyranometer stations was equipped with weather sensors for simultaneous measurements of ambient air temperature and relative humidity. In this paper, we provide the details of this unique setup of the pyranometer network and the data analysis with initial quality screening procedure we adopted. We also present some exemplary cases consisting of the days with clear, broken cloudy and overcast skies to assess our spatio-temporal observations from the network, and validate their consistency with other collocated radiation measurements available during the HOPE period.
- Subjects
CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; CLIMATE change; PHOTODIODES; SILICON
- Publication
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 3, p2555
- ISSN
1867-8610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/amtd-8-2555-2015