A numerical model of the cloud-topped planetary boundary-layer: Impact of aerosol particles on the radiative forcing of stratiform clouds

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 539, 1997, Pages 631-656

  Bott, Andreas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosols and clouds; Cloud microphysics; Cloud radiative forcing; Effective cloud droplet radius; Stratus model

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

AEROSOL; CLOUD DROPLET; MISTRA; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATUS;

EID: 0031448931     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53905     Document Type: Article

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