Dynamic effects on the tropical cloud radiative forcing and radiation budget

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2337-2351

  Yuan, Jian ^a   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a   Wood, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; RADIATION EFFECTS; SUBSIDENCE;

CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; LONG WAVES; OCEANIC REGIONS; RADIATION BUDGET; UPWARD MOTION; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL VELOCITIES;

TROPICS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIATION BUDGET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATOCUMULUS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 48749132527     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1857.1     Document Type: Article

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