The radiative impact of clouds on the shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4308-4315

  Voigt, Aiko ^a,b   Bony, Sandrine ^a   Dufresne, Jean Louis ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RADIATIVE IMPACTS;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLOUD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84902949006     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060354     Document Type: Article

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