The effect of clouds on surface solar irradiance, based on data from an all-sky imaging system

P Tzoumanikas, E Nikitidou, AF Bais, A Kazantzidis - Renewable energy, 2016 - Elsevier
An all-sky imaging system is deployed to estimate the effect of clouds on incident solar
irradiance, for a 2-year period over the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. The minutely cloud …

Use of physics to improve solar forecast: Part II, machine learning and model interpretability

W Liu, Y Liu, T Zhang, Y Han, X Zhou, Y **e, S Yoo - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning (ML) models have been applied to forecast solar energy;
however, they often lack clarity of interpretability and underlying physics. This work …

Use of physics to improve solar forecast: Physics-informed persistence models for simultaneously forecasting GHI, DNI, and DHI

W Liu, Y Liu, X Zhou, Y **e, Y Han, S Yoo, M Sengupta - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Observation-based statistical models have been widely used in forecasting solar energy;
however, existing models often lack a clear relation to physics and are limited largely to …

Can MODIS cloud fraction fully represent the diurnal and seasonal variations at DOE ARM SGP and Manus sites?

Y Wang, C Zhao - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Though cloud fraction (CF) from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
has been widely used, it remains unclear whether it can fully represent the diurnal …

The shortwave radiative flux response to an injection of sea salt aerosols in the Gulf of Mexico

PB Goddard, B Kravitz, DG MacMartin… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) has been proposed as a potential means of
geoengineering the climate, temporarily providing cooling to offset some of the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Surface solar irradiance in continental shallow cumulus fields: Observations and large-eddy simulation

JJ Gristey, G Feingold, IB Glenn… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Surface Solar Irradiance in Continental Shallow Cumulus Fields: Observations and Large-Eddy
Simulation in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 77 Issue 3 (2020) Jump to …

Shipborne observations of the radiative effect of Southern Ocean clouds

A Protat, E Schulz, L Rikus, Z Sun… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study uses shipborne cloud radar and surface radiation measurements collected over
the Southern Ocean to characterize the cloud frequency, cloud fraction, and cloud radiative …

Evaluation of cloud fraction and its radiative effect simulated by IPCC AR4 global models against ARM surface observations

Y Qian, CN Long, H Wang, JM Comstock… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
Cloud Fraction (CF) is the dominant modulator of radiative fluxes. In this study, we evaluate
CF simulated in the IPCC AR4 GCMs against ARM long-term ground-based measurements …

Analysis of Daytime Cloud Fraction Spatiotemporal Variation over the Arctic from 2000 to 2019 from Multiple Satellite Products

X Liu, T He, L Sun, X **ao, S Liang, S Li - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Insufficient understanding of complex Arctic cloud properties introduced large errors in
estimating radiant energy balance parameters at the regional and global scales …

The role of the effective cloud albedo for climate monitoring and analysis

R Mueller, J Trentmann, C Träger-Chatterjee… - Remote Sensing, 2011 - mdpi.com
Cloud properties and the Earth's radiation budget are defined as essential climate variables
by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). The cloud albedo is a measure for the …