Impact of cloud cover on solar radiative biases in deep convective regimes

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1989-2000

  Di Giuseppe, Francesca ^a   Tompkins, A M ^b  

^a ARPA Servizio Idrometeorologico   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCATTERING; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLOUD COVER; PHOTON SCATTERING; SOLAR RADIATIVE BIASES;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 23744488943     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3442.1     Document Type: Article

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