| Abstract: | On the basis of the satellite and ship data of many-year observations, we parametrize the albedo of the ocean-atmosphere system
both for the conditions of “fair weather” and for the maximum and climatic optical thicknesses of oceanic clouds. These results
are used to develop a procedure of practically exact reconstruction of the monthly average fluxes of integral solar radiation
and the radiation budget over the ice-free surface of the oceans according to the data of satellite measurements of albedo
(Nimbus NOAA satellite, 1974–1983) for arbitrary conditions of transparency of the atmosphere and cloudiness. We determine the current
and climatic monthly average values and the characteristics of interannual variability of all components of the radiation
mode of the ocean-atmosphere system with a spatial resolution of 500×500 km.
Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev |
