Irradiance in polluted cumulus fields: Measured and modeled cloud-aerosol effects

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Schmidt, K S ^a,b   Feingold, G ^c   Pilewskie, P ^b   Jiang, H ^c   Coddington, O ^b   Wendisch, M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL SYSTEMS; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; BELOW-CLOUD; CLIMATE STUDIES; CUMULUS FIELDS; GULF OF MEXICO; HOUSTON; MEASUREMENT-BASED; MODEL CALCULATIONS; NEW STRATEGY; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; SHALLOW CUMULUS CLOUDS; SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; SURFACE ALBEDO; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLOUDS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CUMULUS; IRRADIANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 67449131796     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036848     Document Type: Article

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