A Coupled Cloud Physics-Radiation Parameterization of the Bulk Optical Properties of Cirrus and Its Impact on the Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 5.0 Configuration

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7725-7752

  Baran, Anthony J ^a   Hill, Peter ^a   Furtado, Kalli ^a   Field, Paul ^a   Manners, James ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; ICE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COLD TEMPERATURES; EFFECTIVE DIMENSIONS; ICE CRYSTAL SHAPES; RADIATION PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE;

PARAMETERIZATION;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COUPLING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 84907855787     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00700.1     Document Type: Article

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