Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. II: Multilayer cloud

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 641, 2009, Pages 1003-1019

  Morrison, Hugh ^a   McCoy, Renata B ^b   Klein, Stephen A ^b   Xie, Shaocheng ^b   Luo, Yali ^g   Avramov, Alexander ^c   Chen, Mingxuan ^d   Cole, Jason N S ^j   Falk, Michael ^q   Foster, Michael J ^p   del Genio, Anthony D ^m   Harrington, Jerry Y ^c   Hoose, Corinna ⁱ   Khairoutdinov, Marat F ^e   Larson, Vincent E ^q   Liu, Xiaohong ^f   McFarquhar, Greg M ^r   Poellot, Michael R ^v   von Salzen, Knut ^w   Shipway, Ben J ^o   Shupe, Matthew D ^s   Sud, Yogesh C ^l   Turner, David D ^t   Veron, Dana E ⁿ   Walker, Gregory K ^l   Wang, Zhien ^u   Wolf, Audrey B ^m   Xu, Kuan Man ^h   Yang, Fanglin ^k   Zhang, Gong ^r   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^h NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^k CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^l NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^m NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^o MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^p RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^w Canadian Center for Climate   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Arctic clouds; Cloud resolving models; Mixed phase cloud; Single column models

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLOUDS; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD SYSTEMS; CLOUD TEMPERATURE; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODELS; COLD AIR; ICE MASS; ICE WATER PATHS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LIQUID WATER PATHS; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; MICROPHYSICS; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTI-LAYER CLOUDS; MULTI-LAYERED; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SINGLE LAYER; SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL; SINGLE-COLUMN MODELS; WAVE FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; ICE; LIQUIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; RADIOMETRY;

SIMULATORS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SIMULATION; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 70149118746     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.415     Document Type: Article

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