Observational and model estimates of cloud amount feedback over the Indian and Pacific oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 925-940

  Bellomo, Katinka ^a   Clement, Amy C ^a   Norris, Joel R ^b   Soden, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FEEDBACKS; CLOUD VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; RADIATIVE IMPACTS; WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS;

CLIMATE MODELS; SHIPS;

ESTIMATION;

AVHRR; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD; DATA SET; STRATOCUMULUS;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84892526467     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00165.1     Document Type: Article

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