Evaluating and constraining ice cloud parameterizations in CAM5 using aircraft measurements from the SPARTICUS campaign

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4963-4982

  Zhang, K ^a   Liu, X ^a   Wang, M ^a   Comstock, J M ^a   Mitchell, D L ^b   Mishra, S ^b,c   Mace, G G ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CIRRUS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD; ICE CRYSTAL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84896755723     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-4963-2013     Document Type: Article

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