@Article{MartinsPere:2006:PaAeBu,
               author = "Martins, Fernando Ramos and Pereira, Enio Bueno",
          affiliation = "Centre for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies—Brazilian, 
                         Institute of Space Research (CPTEC-INPE), S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos 
                         Campos, SP , Brazil and Centre for Weather Forecast and Climate 
                         Studies—Brazilian, Institute of Space Research (CPTEC-INPE), 
                         S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos Campos, SP , Brazil",
                title = "Parameterization of aerosols from burning biomass in the Brazil-SR 
                         radiative transfer model",
              journal = "Solar Energy",
                 year = "2006",
               volume = "80",
               number = "3",
                pages = "231--239",
                month = "mar",
             keywords = "solar radiation, radiative transfer model, biomass burning 
                         aerosols.",
             abstract = "A new aerosol parameterization was developed and implemented for 
                         operational use with the BRASIL-SR model. The goal is to improve 
                         the assessment of solar energy resources in Brazil. Optical 
                         properties of the aerosols from burning biomass were obtained 
                         using software package OPAC and are in good agreement with 
                         previous field measurements made in Brazil. Three different 
                         mixture ratios of black carbon were used to cover the full range 
                         of typical measured values. The atmospheric transport model SMOKE 
                         provided the aerosol profile. An evaluating period of 11 days in 
                         August/1995 and ground measurements from six sites situated in 
                         Amazon region was used to validate the results. The global solar 
                         irradiation estimates obtained with new aerosol parameterization, 
                         presented smaller mean bias error in all ground sites. The 
                         correlation among estimates and measured values for surface global 
                         solar irradiation improved about 2.5 times by adopting an aerosol 
                         composition with 5% of black carbon.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                 issn = "0038-092X",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "martins_pdf.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "08 maio 2024"
}