Global and regional modeling of clouds and aerosols in the marine boundary layer during VOCALS: The VOCA intercomparison

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 153-172

  Wyant, M C ^a   Bretherton, C S ^a   Wood, R ^a   Carmichael, G R ^b   Clarke, A ^c   Fast, J ^d   George, R ^a   Gustafson, W I ^d   Hannay, C ^e   Lauer, A ^f,j   Lin, Y ^g,k   Morcrette, J J ^h   Mulcahy, J ⁱ   Saide, P E ^b   Spak, S N ^b   Yang, Q ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^j INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^k TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD COVER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84920728055     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-153-2015     Document Type: Article

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