Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2859-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2859-2014
Development and technical paper
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03 Dec 2014
Development and technical paper |  | 03 Dec 2014

Evaluation of the ECHAM family radiation codes performance in the representation of the solar signal

T. Sukhodolov, E. Rozanov, A. I. Shapiro, J. Anet, C. Cagnazzo, T. Peter, and W. Schmutz

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The performance of the main generations of the ECHAM shortwave radiation schemes is analysed in terms of the representation of the solar signal in the heating rates. The way to correct missing or underrepresented spectral intervals in the solar signal in the heating rates is suggested using the example of ECHAM6 and six-band ECHAM5 schemes. The suggested method is computationally fast and suitable for any other radiation scheme.
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