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Figure 7.12: Annual average solar cloud forcing of the atmosphere CFsw(A) in Wm- 2 •
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Figure 7.13: Zonal average iongwave cloud forcing of the atmosphere, CFLw(A), m Wm- 2
for the months of January 1986 and July 1985 from Gupta et ai. (1993).
First sensitivity studies to retrieve the full radiative flux divergence profiles within the atmosphere have been made (Charlock et al., 1993; 1994; Stuhlmann et al. , 1993). Satellite based
retrievals of cloud parameters, such as those from the ISCCP for instance, are used as inputs