Comparison of regime-sorted tropical cloud profiles observed by CloudSat with GEOS5 analyses and two general circulation model simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Su, Hui ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Teixeira, Joao ^a   Gettelman, Andrew ^b   Huang, Xianglei ^c   Stephens, Graeme ^a   Vane, Deborah ^a   Perun, Vincent S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; LIQUIDS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER CONTENT;

CLOUDSAT; DATA ASSIMILATION MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; ICE WATER CONTENT; ICE WATER PATHS; LIQUID CLOUD; LIQUID WATER PATHS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL CLOUDS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLOUDSAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; EOS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 79957459939     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014971     Document Type: Article

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