Estimating the ice crystal enhancement factor in the tropics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1424-1434

  Zeng, Xiping ^a,b   Tao, Wei Kuo ^b   Matsui, Toshihisa ^a,b   Xie, Shaocheng ^c   Lang, Stephen ^b,d   Zhang, Minghua ^e   Starr, David O'C ^b   Li, Xiaowen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Ice crystals; Model evaluation performance; Radars radar observations; Satellite observations; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATIONS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE NUCLEI; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MODEL RESULTS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICALLY BASED; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBGRID TURBULENCE; TROPICAL CLOUDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

ICE;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE CRYSTAL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 79960322973     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAS3550.1     Document Type: Article

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