Radiative sensitivities for cloud structural properties that are unresolved by conventional GCMs

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 612, 2005, Pages 3103-3122

  Barker, Howard W ^a   Raisanen P ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Parametrization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; CLOUDS; ESTIMATION; RADIATION;

CLOUD STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; PARAMETRIZATION; RADIATIVE SENSITIVITIES;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 31944440057     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.174     Document Type: Article

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