The effect of observed vertical structure, habits, and size distributions on the solar radiative properties and cloud evolution of cirrus clouds

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 666, 2012, Pages 1221-1232

  Yang, Huiyi ^a,b,c   Dobbie, Steven ^b   Herbert, Ross ^b   Connolly, Paul ^d   Gallagher, Martin ^d   Ghosh, Sat ^e   Al Jumur, Sardar M R K ^b   Clayton, James ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cirrus; EMERALD; Habits; Ice crystals; Ice optics; Radiative properties; Vertical structure

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; EMERALD; HABITS; ICE CRYSTALS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CLOUDS; ICE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CIRRUS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CRYSTAL; ROUGHNESS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84864287726     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.973     Document Type: Article

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