Sensitivity of aerosol and cloud effects on radiation to cloud types: comparison between deep convective clouds and warm stratiform clouds over one-day period

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2555-2575

  Lee, S S ^a,b   Donner, L J ^a   Phillips, V T J ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 75349114504     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-2555-2009     Document Type: Article

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