Three-Dimensional Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation Clear-Sky Effects in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Abstract
Abstract In complex terrain, non‐parallel surfaces receive emitted radiation from adjacent surfaces. Qualitatively, where surface skin temperatures and lower tropospheric temperature and humidity are not uniform, the downwelling longwave radiation (DLR) will be determined not just by radiation from the atmosphere above a given location, but also by adjacent surface temperatures. We quantify this three‐dimensional longwave radiative effect over the Upper Colorado River Basin in clear‐sky conditions by calculating surface DLR with observed land‐surface temperatures from ECOSTRESS. We find that this effect is due to terrain‐subtended sky‐view and represents ∼22% of the surface longwave flux, rising to ∼28% and ∼24% in the East and Southeast of the Basin, respectively, and can be >50% in extreme cases. The common omission of this effect in atmospheric radiation models leads to an underestimation of DLR in complex terrain, especially at higher elevations, which has significant implications for mountainous ecohydrology simulations.
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