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A comparison of the observed longwave radiation flux to calculations based on Kondratyev's and Brunt's methods

Ein Vergleich des beobachteten langwelligen Strahlungsstromes mit Berechnungen, die auf Kondratyev's und Brunt's Methoden beruhen

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Methods derived by Brunt and Kondratyev to estimate the net radiation in infrared wavelengths at the ground are compared to observations and to each other. Estimates by the two methods consistently have about the same value, which indicates that the effects of temperature and moisture stratification above the surface layer. which are included in Kondratyev's method but not in Brunt's are either not important or not correctly modeled in Kondratyev's simplified theoretical approach.

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Die von Kondratyev und Brunt abgeleiteten Methoden zur Abschätzung der Strahlungsbilanz im Infrarotbereich am Boden werden miteinander und mit Beobachtungen verglichen. Abschätzungen auf Grund der beiden Methoden zeigen konsistent ungefähr dieselben Werte was darauf hindeutet, daß die Stratifikationseffekte von Temperatur und Feuchte, die von Kondratyev, jedoch nicht von Brunt, berücksichtigt werden. entweder unwichtig sind, oder in Kondratyevs einfacher Modellannäherung nicht richtig dargestellt werden.

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  1. A. J. Garrett

    Present address: Atmospheric Science Group, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

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    This research was done while the author was a visitor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

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    Garrett, A.J. A comparison of the observed longwave radiation flux to calculations based on Kondratyev's and Brunt's methods. Arch. Met. Geoph. Biokl. B. 25, 127–134 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02253695

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