The radiation budget of the West African Sahel and its controls: A perspective from observations and global climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5976-5996

  Miller, Mark A ^a   Ghate, Virendra P ^a   Zahn, Robert K ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; atmospheric; Cloud forcing; Cloud radiative effects; Clouds; Diabatic heating; Energy budget balance; Fluxes; Forcing; Heat budgets fluxes; Heating; Infrared radiation; Irradiance; Lidars Lidar observations; Longwave radiation; Microwave observations; Profilers; Radars Radar observations; Radiation budgets; Radiative fluxes; Radiative forcing; Radiative transfer; Radiosonde observations; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Shortwave radiation; Soundings; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FORCING; DIABATIC HEATING; ENERGY BUDGETS; FORCING; HEAT BUDGET; IRRADIANCE; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; PROFILERS; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUNDINGS; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; FLUXES; FORECASTING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; HEATING; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOSONDE; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84867670718     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00072.1     Document Type: Article

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