Sensitivity of a GCM to changes in the droplet effective radius parameterization

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 437-440

  Dandin, Philippe ^a   Pontikis, Constantin ^a   Hicks, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; DROPS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; SHORT WAVES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES;

PARAMETERIZATION; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD DROPLET EFFECTIVE RADIUS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); RADIATIVE FLUXES;

EID: 0031071770     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00214     Document Type: Article

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