The radiation budget in a regional climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 1023-1036

  Kothe, Steffen ^a,b   Dobler, A ^b   Beck, A ^c   Ahrens, B ^b  

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

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Radiation budget; Regional climate modelling

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 79952252493     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0733-2     Document Type: Article

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