Accounting for unresolved clouds in a 1-D solar radiative-transfer model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 608, 2005, Pages 1607-1629

  Li, Jiangnan ^a   Dobbie, S ^b   Raisanen P ^c   Min, Q ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud overlap; Subgrid inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD OVERLAP; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); SUBGRID INHOMOGENEITY;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 27644512335     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.31     Document Type: Article

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