Convection-climate feedbacks in the ECHAM5 general circulation model: Evaluation of cirrus cloud life cycles with ISCCP satellite data from a lagrangian trajectory perspective

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5241-5259

  Gehlot, Swati ^a,b   Quaas, Johannes ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clouds; Convection; Convective clouds; Feedback; General circulation models

Indexed keywords

AIR PARCELS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; CLOUD PROCESS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; FORCINGS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; JOINT HISTOGRAMS; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; LONG WAVES; MODEL EVALUATION; PROCESS-ORIENTED; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THIN CIRRUS; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; HEAT CONVECTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL CONVECTION; TRAJECTORIES;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CIRRUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATUS;

EID: 84864274751     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00345.1     Document Type: Article

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