Research of the Optical, Radiative, and Meteorological Characteristics of the Boundary Layer Based on Remote Sensing Data Obtained During the 1996 Intensive Observing Period in Tomsk

The mean values of the radiation balance of the earth's surface, the atmosphere, and the earth-atmosphere system as a whole are well established. However, this does not apply to the parameters of local areas of the earth's surface and the atmosphere above them. The radiation balance of such local objects experiences considerable variations depending on the spatiotemporal distribution of cloud and aerosol fields, including their physical and optical properties, as well as on the meteorological and synoptic situation. Thus, the radiation balance depends, in particular, on the cloud fraction, the shape of the clouds, their height, and the morphology of the cloud boundaries. The radiation balance is also influenced by the atmospheric transmission and the stratification of aerosol, which in its turn is determined by the thermodynamic regime of the atmosphere.