Climatology of warm boundary layer clouds at the ARM SGP site and their comparison to models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 4760-4782

  Sengupta, Manajit ^a,b   Clothiaux, Eugene E ^c   Ackerman, Thomas P ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT (ARM) PROGRAM; EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECAST (ECMWF) MODEL; MODEL OUTPUT LOCATION TIME SERIES (MOLTS); SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS (SGP);

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD WATER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETER;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12344319516     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3231.1     Document Type: Article

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