Evaluation of ECMWF cloud type simulations at the ARM Southern Great Plains site using a new cloud type climatology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Tselioudis, George ^a   Kollias, Pavlos ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT; CLOUD TYPE CLIMATOLOGY;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CIRRUS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548015659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027314     Document Type: Article

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