On the radiation budget in regional climate simulations for West Africa

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Kothe, S ^a,b   Ahrens, B ^b  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOL EFFECT; CLOUD FRACTION; DATA SETS; ERROR VARIANCE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EUROPEAN UNION; GLOBAL ENERGY; INHOMOGENEITIES; LAND SURFACE; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; UNCERTAINTY SOURCES; WATER CYCLE; WEST AFRICA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALBEDO; CLOUD; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND SURFACE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA;

EID: 78650463911     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014331     Document Type: Article

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