Tropical outgoing longwave radiation and longwave cloud forcing diurnal cycles from CERES

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3652-3669

  Taylor, Patrick C ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud radiative effects; Diurnal effects; Longwave radiation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; EARTH SYSTEM MODELS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; CLOUD-CLEAR; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; DIURNAL CYCLE; DIURNAL EFFECT; LONG WAVES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY BUDGET; INTERPOLATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84871948259     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-12-088.1     Document Type: Article

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