Intercomparison of cloud model simulations of Arctic mixed-phase boundary layer clouds observed during SHEBA/FIRE-ACE

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Morrison, Hugh ^a   Zuidema, Paquita ^b   Ackerman, Andrew S ^c   Avramov, Alexander ^c,d   De Boer, Gijs ^e   Fan, Jiwen ^f   Fridlind, Ann M ^c   Hashino, Tempei ^g,h   Harrington, Jerry Y ⁱ   Luo, Yali ^j   Ovchinnikov, Mikhail ^f   Shipway, Ben ^k  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^k MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION RATES; EXPERIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; QUASI-STEADY STATE; RADIATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATIVE COOLING; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; SURFACE HEAT BUDGET; SURFACE PRECIPITATION;

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EID: 84902594937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011MS000066     Document Type: Article

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