Influence of ice particle surface roughening on the global cloud radiative effect

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2794-2807

  Yi, Bingqi ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Baum, Bryan A ^b   L'Ecuyer, Tristan ^b   Oreopoulos, Lazaros ^c   Mlawer, Eli J ^d   Heymsfield, Andrew J ^e   Liou, Kuo Nan ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud forcing; Ice crystals; Optical properties; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; ICE CRYSTALS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES;

AGGREGATES; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CAMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLOUD COVER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CRYSTAL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 84884940988     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-020.1     Document Type: Article

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