16 December 2008 16 December 2008 CAVIAR Annual Meeting 2008 CAVIAR Annual Meeting 2008 1 Claudine Chen and Claudine Chen and John E Harries John E Harries Space and Atmospheric Physics group, Space and Atmospheric Physics group, Blackett Laboratory, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Imperial College, London, London, UK UK Initial calculations of continuum effect on outgoing IR spectrum: Preparations for CAVIAR WP 5
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Claudine Chen and Claudine Chen and John E HarriesJohn E Harries
Space and Atmospheric Physics group,Space and Atmospheric Physics group,Blackett Laboratory, Blackett Laboratory,
Imperial College,Imperial College,London,London,
UKUK
Initial calculations of continuum effect on outgoing IR spectrum:
Preparations for CAVIAR WP 5
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Earth spectrum studies at Imperial and a view for the future
• At Imperial College for over a decade, we have studied the information
contained in the Earth’s outgoing infrared spectrum, with a view to exploiting
this information to study the changing climate.
• We have used model simulations and real observations, and more
recently re-analysis data.
• We have focussed attention on the far IR.
• Now we are looking at future missions, such as CLARREO*, which seek
to measure the spectrally resolved energy flux into and out of the planet,
and the setting up in space of a “measurement standard” satellite, capable of
inter-calibrating other missions.* (Climate and Absolute Radiance and Refractometry Observatory)
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The CAVIAR component of this project: • As part of this study of the Earth’s IR spectrum, we
have simulated the effect of the Continuum absorption on the OLR spectrum of the Earth.
• We have used MT CKD v1.3 of the continuum, in the LBLRTM code v10.3 to simulate the OLR spectrum, with and without the continuum.
• We have used the NCEP re-analysis to provide atmospheres as input to the RT code. ERA-40 atmospheres will also be used, and ERA-Interim is also being introduced. We report here only the initial results using NCEP.
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Pure rotation H2O
CO2CH4
O3 (highly variable)
2 H2O
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Summary • We have simulated the effect of the continuum
absorption on the OLR spectrum of the Earth using LBLRTM v10.3, which uses MT-CKD v1.3, using NCEP reanalysis data as input
• Water continuum contributes to almost 10% of the radiance for profiles over the tropical oceans in the window region and pure rotation band
• The water continuum is also potentially significant when looking at time evolution and future projections. In this case, water continuum contributed a radiative forcing of ~0.5 W/m2 to the difference signal