Using Satellite Observations of Cloud Vertical Distribution to Improve Global Model Estimates of Cloud Radiative Effect on Key Tropospheric Oxidants Clouds directly affect tropospheric photochemistry through modification of solar radiation that determines photolysis frequencies. This effect is an important component of global tropospheric chemistry-climate interaction, and its understanding is thus essential for predicting the feedback of climate change on tropospheric chemistry.
Document ID
20170005583
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Liu, Hongyu (National Inst. of Aerospace Hampton, VA, United States)
Crawford, James (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Ham, Seung-Hee (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Zhang, Bo (National Inst. of Aerospace Hampton, VA, United States)
Kato, Seiji (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Voulgarakis, Apostolos (Imperial Coll. of London London, United Kingdom)
Chen, Gao (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Fairlie, Duncan (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Duncan, Bryan (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Yantosca, Robert (Harvard Univ. Cambridge, MA, United States)