Intercomparison of shortwave radiative transfer schemes in global aerosol modeling: results from the AeroCom Radiative Transfer Experiment

Funding

C. Randles was supported by the NASA Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis (ACMAP) Program Grant NNX11AK20G under R. Eckman. G. Myhre was supported by the projects SLAC (Short Lived Atmospheric Components) and EarthClim funded by the Norwegian Research Council. M. Schulz acknowledges support under the EU ECLIPSE project, contract No. 282688. J. Huttunen was supported by Graduate school in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Meteorology of Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change: From Molecular Processes to Global Observations and Models. D. Neubauer and R. Hitzenberger acknowledge financial funding from the University of Vienna, FPF 234 and thank Warren Wiscombe (Goddard Space Flight Center) for the ESFT program. D. Neubauer gratefully acknowledges the support by research fellowship F-369, University of Vienna. L. Oreopoulos and D. Lee acknowledge support from NASA's Modeling Analysis and Prediction program managed by D. Considine. The work of R. T. Pinker and Y. Ma was supported under grant NNX11AF54G through the NASA Science of Terra and Aqua Program and grant NNX08AN40A from the NASA Science Mission Directorate-Division of Earth Science. S. T. Rumbold was supported by the Joint DECC and Defra Integrated Climate Programme (GA01101). H. Yu was supported by NASA ACMAP, managed by R. Eckman. F. Zhang was supported by US DOE office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) DE-SC0001683. H. Zhang was funded and supported by the "Strategic Priority Research Program -Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Relevant Issues" (XDA05040200) and "National High-tech Research and Development (863) Project (2011AA12A104)". P. Lu was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB403405). The authors thank Q. Fu, Jun Wang, and one anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments that helped to improve the manuscript.