A simple conceptual model of cirrus horizontal inhomogeneity and cloud fraction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 128, Issue 579, 2002, Pages 149-171

  Smith, S A ^a,b   Del Genio, A D ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NASA/GISS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud parametrization; Ice histograms; Ice sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ICE;

HISTOGRAMS;

METEOROLOGY;

CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DEPTH DETERMINATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADAR;

EID: 0036148664     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/00359000260498833     Document Type: Article

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