Erratum: Observationally based evaluation of NWP reanalyses in modeling cloud properties over the Southern Great Plains (Journal of Geophysical Research (2012) 117 (D16299) DOI:10.1029/2011JD016971);Observationally based evaluation of NWP reanalyses in modeling cloud properties over the Southern Great Plains

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Wei ^a   Liu, Yangang ^a   Betts, Alan K ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Atmospheric Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LINEAR LINKS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NCEP/NCAR; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE-BASED; TEMPORAL SCALE;

RADIOMETRY;

ALBEDO; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DIAGRAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84862569322     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD018336     Document Type: Erratum

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