toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_no_aerosol
completeCreated: March 22, 2016
Proposer: Ben Kravitz
Proposed Date: 2015-10-12
CMIP6 - GeoMIP. (Why hasn't post appeared on mailing list?)
Change Date: March 22, 2016, 10:52 a.m.
Term: toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_no_aerosol
Unit: W m-2
Unit ref: UFAA
AMIP:
GRIB:
TOA Outgoing Clean-Sky Shortwave Radiation. Based on Ghan (2013, ACP).
Change Date: May 29, 2018, 1:39 p.m.
Term: toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_no_aerosol
Unit: W m-2
Unit ref: UFAA
AMIP:
GRIB:
The abbreviation "toa" means top of atmosphere. The term "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. A phrase "assuming_condition" indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition.