The influence of radiatively active water ice clouds on the Martian climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Madeleine, J B ^a,b   Forget, F ^a   Millour, E ^a   Navarro, T ^a   Spiga, A ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DYNAMICS;

ADIABATIC TEMPERATURE CHANGE; CLOUD FORMATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL DYNAMICS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; POLAR REGIONS; TEMPERATURE BIAS; THERMAL EMISSION SPECTROMETERS; THERMAL STRUCTURE OF THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; WATER ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTROMETER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84871315518     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053564     Document Type: Article

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