Geographically versus dynamically defined boundary layer cloud regimes and their use to evaluate general circulation model cloud parameterizations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4951-4956

  Nam, Christine C W ^a,b   Quaas, Johannes ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

boundary layer clouds; CloudSat; COSP; ECHAM5; radar simulator; tropical low clouds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS; CLOUDSAT; COSP; ECHAM5; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REFLECTIVITY PROFILES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADAR; RADAR SIMULATORS; REFLECTION;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; CLOUDSAT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; SIMULATOR; STRATOCUMULUS; SUBSIDENCE;

CALIFORNIA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884222013     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50945     Document Type: Article

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