An investigation of the connections among convection, clouds, and climate sensitivity in a global climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1845-1862

  Zhao, Ming ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE COMPONENTS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION QUALITY;

EID: 84897635713     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00145.1     Document Type: Article

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