Material for the GEOframe Winter School - Radiation budget

After having spent time on preparatory topics, but before facing the hydrological processes, we need to cope with solar radiation. The topic was already treated in other posts. However not often in English.

Some very elementary slides about the sun:

• The Sun
• Stefan-Boltzmann law
• From Sun to Earth

Now some more complicate topics

• Copying with Earth Surface
• Shortwave absorptions by the atmosphere (YouTube video)
• Considering clouds (YouTube video)
• Shortwave-Terrain geometries (YouTube video)
• Longwave radiation (YouTube video)
• Table of Symbols

Documentation of the components

• Clearness Index
• Longwave radiation budget
• Shortwave radiation
• Net radiation

Exercises illustrated by Jupyter notebooks by Michele Bottazzi

• Here the link to Jupyter notebooks
• Here the live stream on YouTube (Part I and Part II)

References

Corripio, J. G. (2002). Modelling the energy balance of high altitude glacierised basins in the Central Andes. Ph.D Dissertation, 1–175.

Corripio, J. G. (2003). Vectorial algebra algorithms for calculating terrain parameters from DEMs and solar radiation modelling in mountainous terrain, 17(1), 1–23.

Formetta, G., Rigon, R., Chávez, J. L., & David O. (2013). Modeling shortwave solar radiation using the JGrass-NewAge system. Geoscientific Model Development, 6(4), 915–928. http://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-915-2013

Formetta, G., Bancheri, M., David, O., & Rigon, R. (2016). Performance of site-specific parameterizations of longwave radiation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20(11), 4641–4654. http://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4641-2016

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