Aerosol effects on cirrus through ice nucleation in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5 with a statistical cirrus scheme

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 756-776

  Wang, Minghuai ^a   Liu, Xiaohong ^a,b   Zhang, Kai ^a   Comstock, Jennifer M ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

cirrus modeling; cirrus seeding; fast response; ice nucleation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; DUST; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; NUCLEATION; SUPERSATURATION;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; FAST RESPONSE; ICE NUCLEATION; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS;

ICE;

AEROSOL; AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CIRRUS; CLEAR SKY; ICE CRYSTAL; NET RADIATION; NUCLEATION; PERTURBATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SUPERSATURATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84922802446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000339     Document Type: Article

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