Evaluation of clouds and precipitation in the ECHAM5 general circulation model using CALIPSO and cloudsat satellite data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4975-4992

  Nam, Christine C W ^a,b   Quaas, Johannes ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate models; Lidars Lidar observations; Model evaluation performance; Radars Radar observations; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; FEEDBACK MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL SCALE; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HIGH ALTITUDE; ICE CRYSTALS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LIDAR SIGNALS; LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; MODEL EVALUATION; RADAR SATELLITES; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTERING RATIO; SIMULATOR PACKAGE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; ICE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR SIMULATORS; SATELLITE SIMULATORS; SCATTERING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CALIPSO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUDSAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HADLEY CELL; ICE CRYSTAL; LIDAR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84864242359     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00347.1     Document Type: Article

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