Excessive transmission of solar radiation through the cloud-free atmosphere in GCMs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2165-2168

  Wild, Martin ^a   Liepert, Beate ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLEAR SKY INSOLATION CLIMATOLOGIES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); WATER VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

GCM; SOLAR RADIATION; TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032525918     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL51595     Document Type: Article

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