Radiative Climatology of the North Slope of Alaska and the Adjacent Arctic Ocean
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Recent climate modeling results point to the Arctic as a region that is particularly sensitive to global climate change (e.g., IPCC 1997). The North Slope of Alaska-Adjacent Arctic Ocean (NSA-AAO) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) sites of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program are designed to collect data on temperature-ice-albedo and water vapor-cloud-radiation feedbacks are believed to be important to the predicted global warming (Stamnes et al. 1999). The main goals of the project are improving radiative transfer models in the Arctic environment and the testing of satellite remote sensing algorithms.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001