HR: 16:00h
AN: A34D-01 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Radiative Energy Budget in the Tropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
AU: * Fu, Q
EM: qfu@atmos.washington.edu
AF: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640, United States
AB: The radiative heating rates in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) play a critically important role in the tropical troposphere-to-stratosphere transport. In this presentation I will review recent efforts to quantify the radiative heating rates in the UTLS and discuss the challenges in radiative transfer modeling and observations of atmospheric states and clouds in this region.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0319 Cloud optics
DE: 0320 Cloud physics and chemistry
DE: 0321 Cloud/radiation interaction
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting