Comparison of four cloud schemes in simulating the seasonal mean field forced by the observed sea surface temperature

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2557-2575

  Shimpo, Akihiko ^a,b   Kanamitsu, Masao ^a   Iacobellis, Sam F ^a   Hong, Song You ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; PARAMETERIZATION; SILICONES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD PARAMETERIZATION; CLOUD WATER; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET EXPERIMENT; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; RADIATION FLUXES; RE-ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL MEAN; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; STRONG INTERACTIONS; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATION BUDGET; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 52149089620     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2179.1     Document Type: Article

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