The role of clouds and the cloud-free atmosphere in the problem of underestimated absorption of solar radiation in GCM atmospheres

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-268

  Wild, M ^a   Ohmura, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CLOUD COVER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0032833510     PISSN: 14641909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1909(98)00048-3     Document Type: Article

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