Knowledge graph centered on Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for GCMs (RRTMG) with 44 nodes and 135 connections. Top connected: snowpack persistence, evapotranspiration, precipitation, East River, Colorado River.
Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for GCMs used to calculate clear-sky broadband radiation fluxes. Uses atmospheric profile inputs to estimate what radiation would be in absence of clouds for comparison with observed all-sky conditions.
Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.
Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Seasonality and albedo dependence of cloud radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin (2025), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.