The shortwave radiative forcing bias of liquid and ice clouds from MODIS observations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5865-5875

  Oreopoulos, L ^a   Platnick, S ^a   Hong, G ^b   Yang, P ^b   Cahalan, R F ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 77951683545     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-5865-2009     Document Type: Article

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