Cloud vertical distribution across warm and cold fronts in cloudsat-CALIPSO data and a general circulation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3397-3415

  Naud, Catherine M ^a   Del Genio, Anthony D ^b   Bauer, Mike ^a   Kovari, William ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; COLD AIR; COLD FRONT; EXTRATROPICAL; FRONTAL CLOUDS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; ORIGINAL MODEL; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SLANTWISE CONVECTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STATE PARAMETERS; STORM TRACK; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WARM FRONTS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOISTURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; COLD FRONT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WARM FRONT; WATER VAPOR;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77955478870     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3282.1     Document Type: Article

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