Abstract
Radiation budget estimates from the Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Experiment, as well as the cloud amount and cloud top temperature estimates from the Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMs) instruments on the Nimbus-7 Satellite have been used to Study the temporal variability of cloud and earth radiation budget parameters for the month of July from the four-year period, 1980–1983. In particular, the relationships between cloud amount, cloud top temperature and longwave cloud radiative forcing have been examined. It is concluded that: (1) maxima in longwave cloud radiative forcing occur over Southeast Asia, north equatorial Africa and Central America; (2) the interannual variability of longwave cloud radiative forcing is greatest in the western and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean;(3) anomalies in longwave cloud radiative forcing are well correlated with anomalies in cloud amount and cloud top temperature; and (4) July 1981, a non-El Nino/Southern Oscillation year, appears to be the most anomalous July in the 1980–1983 period.
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