High cloud increase in a perturbed SST experiment with a global nonhydrostatic model including explicit convective processes

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 571-585

  Tsushima, Yoko ^a   Iga, Shin Ichi ^b   Tomita, Hirofumi ^b,c   Satoh, Masaki ^c,d   Noda, Akira T ^c   Webb, Mark J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

cloud feedback; global cloud resolving model; high cloud; longwave; NICAM; perturbed SST experiment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FEEDBACK; GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE WATERS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD FEEDBACKS; CONTROL SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; LONG WAVES; NICAM; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLOUD; GLOBAL WARMING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84907823728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000301     Document Type: Article

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