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Fig. 6 | Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Fig. 6

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

Fig. 6

Budget analysis of outgoing longwave radiation changes due to global warming. Cloud size is binned by radius (20 km bins), showing a mean values of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) for each cloud size and b the OLR area-ratio-and-frequency-of-occurrence-weighted accumulation in the x (radius) direction (i.e., \( \sum \limits_{ir=1}^{\infty }{\varphi}_{ir}\frac{\pi {r}_{ir}^2}{S}{P}_{ir} \), where \( S=\sum \limits_{ir=1}^{\infty}\pi {r}_{ir}^2 \), φir, and rir denote values of each term shown in a and cloud radius at the irth bin, respectively. P denotes the probability distribution function of high cloud number). The original OLR values (black), diagnosed values from Eq. (2) (red), and the contributions of each term on the right hind side of Eq. (2) (green, blue, and cyan) are plotted. Adapted from Noda et al. (2016)

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