A climatology of surface cloud radiative effects at the ARM tropical western pacific sites

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 996-1013

  McFarlane, Sally A ^a   Long, Charles N ^a   Flaherty, Julia ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud radiative effects; Radiation budgets

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEASUREMENTS OF; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE FLUXES; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DATA SET; DOWNWELLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MONSOON; RADIATION BUDGET; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; MANUS; NAURU; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84876806103     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0189.1     Document Type: Article

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