Relationship between clear-sky atmospheric greenhouse effect and deep convection during the Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment:model calculations and satellite observations

Weaver, C. P., Collins, W. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-9848 and Grassl, H. (1994) Relationship between clear-sky atmospheric greenhouse effect and deep convection during the Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment:model calculations and satellite observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99 (D12). 25,891-25,901. ISSN 0148-0227

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Abstract

We present calculations of total clear-sky greenhouse effect and its partitioning between the lower, middle, and upper troposphere using high-quality balloon soundings of temperature and humidity as input to a radiative transfer model. The soundings were taken from a ship every 6 hours from March 7 to 20, 1993, in the central Pacific. Periods of active or suppressed convection with timescales of the order of days can produce large spatial gradients in clear-sky atmospheric greenhouse trapping in warm, climatologically convective regions. While the sea surface temperature (SST) decreased by 2K from west to east, temperatures above 850mbar showed considerably less variation. -from Authors

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	geophysics,forestry,oceanography,aquatic science,ecology,water science and technology,soil science,geochemistry and petrology,earth-surface processes,atmospheric science,earth and planetary sciences (miscellaneous),space and planetary science,palaeontology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1908
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2026 16:04
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2026 05:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103776
DOI:	10.1029/94jd02323

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