Radiative properties of boundary layer clouds: Droplet effective radius versus number concentration

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 803-821

  Brenguier, Jean Louis ^a   Pawlowska, Hanna ^a,d   Schüller, Lothar ^b   Preusker, Rene ^b   Fischer, Jürgen ^b   Fouquart, Yves ^c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL CHARACTERIZATION EXPERIMENT; DROPLET EFFECTIVE RADIUS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; PARAMETERIZATION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 0034062157     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<0803:RPOBLC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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