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The work describes the creation of a new global climatology of short-wave radiation incoming to the ocean surface; the climatology is based on a new parameterization of short-wave fluxes. Advantages of the new parameterization are allowance for nonlinearity of the dependence of the atmospheric transmission factor on the height of the Sun under a clear sky and allowance for different morphological types of clouds under the overcast. It is shown that taking into account these factors leads to substantial differences in short-wave radiation fluxes in comparison to existing parameterizations.
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Original Russian Text © M.P. Aleksandrova, A.V. Sinitsyn, S.K. Gulev, 2017, published in Okeanologiya, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 253–256.
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Aleksandrova, M.P., Sinitsyn, A.V. & Gulev, S.K. Climate patterns of short-wave solar radiation over oceans based on a new parameterization. Oceanology 57, 225–228 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437017020011
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