Marine boundary layer clouds at the heart of tropical cloud feedback uncertainties in climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Bony, Sandrine ^a   Dufresne, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLOUDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MARINE ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 28944450038     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023851     Document Type: Article

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