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
• Considering clouds
• Shortwave-Terrain geometries
• Longwave radiation
• Table of Symbols

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., Mantilla, R., Franceschi, S., Antonello, A., & Rigon, R. (2011). The JGrass-NewAge system for forecasting and managing the hydrological budgets at the basin scale: models of flow generation and propagation/routing. Geoscientific Model Development, 4(4), 943–955. http://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-4-943-2011

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