Simulation of seasonal variation of marine boundary layer clouds over the Eastern Pacific with a regional climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3190-3210

  Wang, Lei ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Lauer, Axel ^a   Xie, Hang Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CALIFORNIA; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD BASE; CLOUD LAYERS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; MODEL SIMULATION; OPEN OCEAN; REGIME TRANSITION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RESEARCH CENTER; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOCUMULUS; TROPOSPHERE;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PERU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960304405     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3935.1     Document Type: Article

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