Assessing simulated clouds and radiative fluxes using properties of clouds whose tops are exposed to space

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2715-2727

  Cole, Jason ^a   Barker, Howard W ^a   Loeb, Norman G ^b   von Salzen, Knut ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Climate models; Clouds; Optical properties; Radiative fluxes; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

2-D HISTOGRAMS; ALBEDO; ALL-SKY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD OPTICAL PROPERTIES; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LIQUID WATER PATHS; LONG WAVES; PRESSURE RANGES; RADIATIVE FLUXES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 79959337703     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3652.1     Document Type: Article

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