Marine low cloud sensitivity to an idealized climate change: The CGILS les intercomparison

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 234-258

  Blossey, Peter N ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Zhang, Minghua ^b   Cheng, Anning ^c   Endo, Satoshi ^d   Heus, Thijs ^e   Liu, Yangang ^d   Lock, Adrian P ^f   De Roode, Stephan R ^g   Xu, Kuan Man ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^f MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^g DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^h NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud feedbacks

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; RADIOMETRY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBSIDENCE;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLOUD FEEDBACKS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; LIQUID WATER PATHS; QUASI-STEADY STATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHALLOW CUMULUS CLOUDS; SURFACE WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CUMULUS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84880812843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jame.20025     Document Type: Article

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