Dominant roles of subgrid-scale cloud structures in model diversity of cloud radiative effects

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7733-7749

  Zhang, Feng ^a   Liang, Xin Zhong ^b   Li, Jiangnan ^c   Zeng, Qingcun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

CAR system; cloud radiative effect; intermodel discrepancy; nonlinear; radiation; subgrid scale cloud structure

Indexed keywords

CAR SYSTEM; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; CLOUD STRUCTURE; INTERMODEL DISCREPANCY; NONLINEAR;

HEAT RADIATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HOMOGENEITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 84882760269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50604     Document Type: Article

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