Compensation of hemispheric albedo asymmetries by shifts of the ITCZ and tropical clouds

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1029-1045

  Voigt, Aiko ^a,c   Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Bader, Jürgen ^a,b   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMPENSATION MECHANISM; HEMI-SPHERIC ASYMMETRIES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RADIATION BUDGET; THERMAL INERTIA; TROPICAL CLOUDS; UNDERLYING SURFACE;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIATION BUDGET; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84893189880     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00205.1     Document Type: Article

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