Effect of aerosol on cloud-environment interactions in trade cumulus

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3607-3632

  Lee, Seoung Soo ^a,b   Feingold, Graham ^a   Chuang, Patrick Y ^c  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulus clouds; Large eddy simulations; Marine boundary layer

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD SYSTEMS; CUMULUS CLOUD; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FORCINGS; HUMIDITY PROFILE; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; MODEL OUTPUTS; OPTICAL DEPTH; RAIN RATES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

CLOUDS; COMMERCE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CUMULUS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871941461     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-026.1     Document Type: Article

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