Explaining discrepancies in passive microwave cloud-radiation databases in microphysical context from two different cloud-resolving models

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 127-145

  Mugnai, Alberto ^a   Smith, E A ^b   Tripoli, G J ^c   Dietrich, S ^a   Kotroni, V ^d   Lagouvardos, K ^d   Medaglia, C M ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DATABASE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM; UPWELLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 55649117979     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-007-0281-4     Document Type: Article

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