On the influence of cloud fraction diurnal cycle and sub-grid cloud optical thickness variability on all-sky direct aerosol radiative forcing

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 142, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-36

  Min, Min ^a   Zhang, Zhibo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Above cloud aerosol; CALIPSO; Cloud diurnal cycle; MODIS; Radiative forcing; SEVIRI

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GRAPHIC METHODS; RADIOMETERS; SMOKE;

CALIPSO; DIURNAL CYCLE; MODIS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEVIRI;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AEROSOL; CALIPSO; CLOUD; DIURNAL VARIATION; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEVIRI;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84898445777     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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