Evaluation of cloud physical properties of ECMWF analysis and re-analysis (ERA) against CERES tropical deep convective cloud object observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 207-223

  Xu, Kuan Man ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTHS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD SYSTEMS; DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DETECTION RATES; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM SATELLITES; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GRID CELLS; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACINGS; ICE WATER PATHS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; OBJECT DATUM; OBJECT SIZES; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; RE-ANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SNOW WATER CONTENTS; SUB GRIDS; VERTICAL PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATELLITES; SOLAR ENERGY; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 64149118005     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2633.1     Document Type: Article

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