Satellite Observations of the Earth's Radiation Budget

作者：Thomas H. Vonder Haar, VERNER E. SUOMI · 发表于：Science · 年份：1969 · DOI：10.1126/science.163.3868.667 · 被引用次数：56 · 研究领域：Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics、Atmospheric Ozone and Climate、Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

Meteorological satellites have provided the first complete data on energy exchange between earth and space. The planetary albedo is 29 percent for the mean annual case, and the entire earth-atmosphere system is in near radiative equilibrium. More energy is absorbed in tropical regions than previously believed, and major energy source and sink regions exist within latitude belts.