Observed linkages between the northern annular mode/North Atlantic Oscillation, cloud incidence, and cloud radiative forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1681-1688

  Li, Ying ^a   Thompson, David W J ^a   Huang, Yi ^b   Zhang, Minghong ^b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cloud; cloud radiative forcing; CloudSat CALIPSO; North Atlantic Oscillation; northern annular mode

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDSAT; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUDSAT; DATA SET; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84895078879     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059113     Document Type: Article

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