A review of studies tackling problems on marine stratiform clouds is presented. The strong effect of marine stratocumulus clouds on the top-of-the-atmosphere radiation budget is demonstrated using 5 years of Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) data. A relationship between albedo and sea surface temperature (SST) is shown to exist in two areas of the globe that tend to be covered by marine stratocumulus. Albedo increases when SST decreases and vice-versa in both regions when examined on an annual, interannual or spatial basis. The magnitude of the albedo response to a given SST change (1) varies within the regions; (2) differs between the two regions; (3) depends on the type of variability examined; (4) depends on the SST. No useful relations were found between albedo and other meteorological variables. Climatic implications on a global scale arising from the albedo-SST anticorrelation are also discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.56668 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Oreopoulos, Lazaros |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Meteorology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001318493, proquestno: AAIMM80445, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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