Cloud radiative effect on tropical troposphere to stratosphere transport represented in a large-scale model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Huang, Xianglei ^a   Su, Hui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; HEATING; RADIANT HEATING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AM2 MODELS; FUTURE MODELS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE HEATING; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERES; UPPER TROPOSPHERES; UPWARD MOTIONS; UPWARD VELOCITIES;

MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CIRRUS; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 58849098609     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035673     Document Type: Article

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