Water vapor and cloud radiative forcings over the Pacific Ocean simulated by the LASG/IAP AGCM: Sensitivity to convection schemes

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-98

  Wu, Chunqiang ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Sun, De Zheng ^c   Bao, Qing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud radiative forcing; convection scheme; greenhouse effect; SAMIL

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650649886     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-9205-1     Document Type: Article

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