Intercomparison of Arctic regional models: Modeling clouds and radiation for SHEBA in May 1998

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4167-4178

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Liu, Jiping ^b   Pinto, James O ^c   Curry, Judith A ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RADIATION; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD GEOMETRY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CODES; SURFACE ICEMELT;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE FLUX;

ARCTIC;

EID: 33749069295     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3854.1     Document Type: Article

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