Calculating monthly radiative fluxes and heating rates from monthly cloud observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3471-3491

  Bergman, John W ^a,b   Hendon, Harry H ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LONGWAVE FLUX; SHORTWAVE FLUX;

CLOUDS;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 0033489846     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<3471:cmrfah>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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