Testing ice microphysics parameterizations in the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model Version 3 using Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Weiguo ^a   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Xie, Shaocheng ^b   Boyle, Jim ^b   McFarlane, Sally A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; EXPERIMENTS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; SIMULATORS; STANDARDS;

AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLIMATE MODEL; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD WATER; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CONCENTRATION OF; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; EXPERIMENT DATA; FROZEN WATER; ICE CLOUD PROPERTIES; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE MASS; ICE WATER CONTENT; IN-SITU DATA; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MICROPHYSICS; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SENSITIVITY TESTS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WARM POOLS;

WATER CONTENT;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER MASS;

EID: 70350064177     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011220     Document Type: Article

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