Simulation of the global contrail radiative forcing: A sensitivity analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Yi, Bingqi ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Liou, Kuo Nan ^b   Minnis, Patrick ^c   Penner, Joyce E ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AIR TRAFFICS; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLOUD OVERLAP; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; EFFECTIVE SIZE; LONG WAVES; MODELING APPROACH; OFF-LINE MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SENSITIVITY TESTS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871578922     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054042     Document Type: Article

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