The global land shortwave cryosphere radiative effect during the MODIS era

Singh, D.; Flanner, M. G.; Perket, J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2057-2015

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2057-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2057-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

Research article

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10 Nov 2015

Research article |

| 10 Nov 2015

The global land shortwave cryosphere radiative effect during the MODIS era

D. Singh, M. G. Flanner, and J. Perket

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Nov 2015)
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RC C1475: 'Referee Comment on The Global Land Cryosphere Radiative Effect during the MODIS era', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Aug 2015
- AC C1897: 'Response to the comments from reviewer', Deepak Singh, 19 Oct 2015
RC C1603: 'Review for The Cryosphere, September 2015', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Sep 2015
- AC C1902: 'Response to the comments from reviewer', Deepak Singh, 19 Oct 2015

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AR by Deepak Singh on behalf of the Authors (21 Oct 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (24 Oct 2015) by Marco Tedesco

AR by Deepak Singh on behalf of the Authors (28 Oct 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Nov 2015) by Marco Tedesco

Short summary

Our work quantifies the effect of snow/ice cover on Earth's top-of-atmosphere solar energy budget. We used higher resolution MODIS data, combined with microwave retrievals of snow presence and radiative kernels produced from 4 different models for Cryosphere Radiative Effect (CrRE) estimation. We have estimated a global land-based CrRE of about -2.6Wm-2 during 2001-2013, with about 59% of the effect originating from Antarctica. We were also be able to resolve contribution from mountain glaciers.