Relationship between shortwave cloud radiative forcing and local meteorological variables compared in observations and several global climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4344-4359

  Stowasser, Markus ^a   Hamilton, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES;

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC); SHORTWAVE CLOUD RADIATIVE FEEDBACK (SWCRF);

METEOROLOGY;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

EID: 33749068690     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3875.1     Document Type: Article

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