Diagnosing warm frontal cloud formation in a GCM: A novel approach using conditional subsetting

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5827-5845

  Booth, James F ^a   Naud, Catherine M ^a   Del Genio, Anthony D ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INITIAL STRUCTURES; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CLOUDS;

NASA;

AMSR-E; CALIPSO; CLOUD; CLOUDSAT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; STRATIFORM CLOUD; WARM FRONT;

EID: 84881626359     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00637.1     Document Type: Article

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