Observed Southern Ocean cloud properties and shortwave reflection. Part II: Phase changes and low cloud feedback

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8858-8868

  Mccoy, Daniel T ^a   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a   Grosvenor, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE WARMING; CLOUD FEEDBACKS; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD PROPERTIES; MID-LATITUDE CLOUDS; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; GLOBAL WARMING; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHASE TRANSITION; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84919629576     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00288.1     Document Type: Article

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