Low cloud reduction in a greenhouse-warmed climate: Results from Lagrangian les of a subtropical marine cloudiness transition

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-114

  Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Blossey, Peter N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

boundary layer clouds; cloud feedbacks; Large Eddy Simulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LIQUIDS; TROPICS;

CLOUD FEEDBACKS; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; FREE TROPOSPHERE; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIATIVE MECHANISMS; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; SURFACE WARMING; THERMODYNAMIC MECHANISM;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STRATOCUMULUS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84899096387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000250     Document Type: Article

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