The impact of antarctic cloud radiative properties on a GCM climate simulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 447-462

  Lubin, Dan ^a   Chen, Biao ^b   Bromwich, David H ^b,c   Somerville, Richard C J ^a   Lee, Wan Ho ^a,d   Hines, Keith M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Systems Engineering Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; GCM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0031879298     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0447:TIOACR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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