Effect of improving representation of horizontal and vertical cloud structure on the Earth's global radiation budget. Part II: The global effects

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 650, 2010, Pages 1205-1215

  Shonk, Jonathan K P ^a   Hogan, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud inhomogeneity; Decorrelation height; Exponential random; Overlap; Tripleclouds

Indexed keywords

DECORRELATIONS; EXPONENTIAL-RANDOM; INHOMOGENEITIES; OVERLAP; TRIPLECLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATION BUDGET; STRATOCUMULUS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77956207859     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.646     Document Type: Article

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