Comparison of a global-climate model to a cloud-system resolving model for the long-term response of thin stratocumulus clouds to preindustrial and present-day aerosol conditions

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 6371-6389

  Lee, S S ^a   Penner, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 77954944762     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-6371-2010     Document Type: Article

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