Comparison of a global-climate model simulation to a cloud-system resolving model simulation for long-term thin stratocumulus clouds

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6497-6520

  Lee, S S ^a   Penner, J E ^a   Wang, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATIFORM CLOUD; STRATOCUMULUS; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 75449107397     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-6497-2009     Document Type: Article

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