Effect of ice cloud on GCM climate simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-74

  Ho, Chang Hoi ^a,b   Chou, Ming Dah ^a,b   Suarez, Max ^a,b   Lau, Ka Ming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CALCULATIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CLOUDS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SHORT WAVE SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELLING; GCM; ICE CLOUD; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 0031804582     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03356     Document Type: Article

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