Impact of a new radiation package, McRad, in the ECMWF integrated forecasting system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4773-4798

  Morcrette, Jean Jacques ^a   Barker, H W ^b   Cole, J N S ^c   Iacono, M J ^d   Pincus, R ^e  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD OVERLAPS; CLOUD-RADIATION INTERACTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DIABATIC HEATING; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GEOPOTENTIAL; INTEGRATED FORECASTING SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE ALBEDOS; MODERATE RESOLUTIONS; MONTE CARLO; OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURES; OCEAN SYSTEMS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; SPECTRO RADIOMETERS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL CONVECTIONS; TROPICAL REGIONS; VERTICAL PLANES;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; COST REDUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE TREATMENT; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ALBEDO; INTERPOLATION; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57349153518     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2363.1     Document Type: Article

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