For more information on the Earth's radiation budget see:

Basic texts

Meteorology Today, An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment, by C. Donald Ahrens, West Publishing Company

Meteorology, The Atmosphere and the Science of Weather, by Joseph M. Moran and Michael D. Morgan, MacMillan College Publishing Company

More advanced papers

Barkstrom, B. R., The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), 1984: Bull Am. Meteorol. Soc., 65, 1170-1185.

Barkstrom, B. R., E. Harrison, G. Smith, R. Green, J. Kibler, R. Cess and the ERBE Science Team, 1989: Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) archival and April 1985 results. Bull. Am. Meteorol., Soc., 70., 1254-1262.

Harrison, E. F., D. R. Brooks, P. Minnis, B. A. Wielicki, W. F. Staylor, G. G. Gibson, D. F. Young, F. M. Denn, and the ERBE Science Team, 1988: First estimates of the diurnal variation of longwave radiation from the multiple-satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), Bull. AM. Meteorol, Soc., 69, 1144-1151.