Seasonal co-variability of surface downwelling longwave radiation for the 1982–2009 period in the Arctic

Boccolari, Mauro; Parmiggiani, Flavio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-139-2017

Articles | Volume 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-139-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-139-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14

01 Jun 2017

| 01 Jun 2017

Seasonal co-variability of surface downwelling longwave radiation for the 1982–2009 period in the Arctic

Mauro Boccolari and Flavio Parmiggiani

Data sets

CLARA-A1: CM SAF cLouds, Albedo and Radiation dataset from AVHRR data - Edition 1 - Monthly Means / Daily Means / Pentad Means / Monthly Histograms K.-G. Karlsson, A. Riihelä, R. Müller, J. F. Meirink, J. Sedlar, M. Stengel, M. Lockhoff, J. Trentmann, F. Kaspar, R. Hollmann, and E. Wolters https://doi.org/10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/CLARA_AVHRR/V001

Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 1 D. J. Cavalieri, C. L. Parkinson, P. Gloersen, and H. J. Zwally https://doi.org/10.5067/8GQ8LZQVL0VL

Short summary

The paper investigates, for 28 years, the correlation between the longwave radiation to the surface (SDL) and the sea ice concentration (SIC) over the Arctic Ocean. One relevant result is the strong correlations of the SDL/SIC co-variability with some main NH climate oscillations patterns. This study can help to better understand the relationship between atmospheric and cryospheric variables. The paper is based on an intensive use of some climate data sets provided by EUMETSAT and NSIDC.