Impact of Volcanic Aerosol on Mean Fluxes of Solar Radiation in Broken Clouds

One of the powerful means of detecting the volcanic effect on the earth’s radiation budget and, hence, on the earth’s climate is numerical modeling. However, the atmospheric processes, during and after the eruption, are too complex and frequently prohibit an adequate description of the non-unique effect of volcanic activity on the earth’s energy balance and its individual components. This explains why different model results, obtained by many authors, not only disagree among themselves, but also with the data of field measurements (Kondratiev 1992). To improve the quality of radiation calculations, it is necessary to update the existing models and, in particular, the radiation codes upon which they are basically built.