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Fig. 16 | Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Fig. 16

From: Toward reduction of the uncertainties in climate sensitivity due to cloud processes using a global non-hydrostatic atmospheric model

Fig. 16

The vertical profiles of shortwave fluxes. Downward shortwave flux a and upward shortwave flux b are shown for observation (black line) and for simulations using the radiation database calculated according to the Mie theory (red line) and the Fu database (blue line), assuming non-spherical particles. The error bars in the observed profiles indicate the estimated possible range, and in the simulated profiles indicate the standard deviation within the 63 sampled profiles. The gray dashed boxes indicate the cirrus layer. The simulated profiles are from the M92PLT experiment described in Seiki et al. (2014). The target cirrus clouds had an optical thickness of 6.1 ± 0.5 over the land around Japan (30°N to 40°N and 130°E to 142°E) on 8 June 1995. Adapted from Seiki et al. (2014)

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