Evaluation of the radiation budget with a regional climate model over Europe and inspection of dimming and brightening

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1951-1971

  Chiacchio, Marc ^a,b,c   Solmon, Fabien ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^a   Stackhouse, Paul ^d   Wild, Martin ^e  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research   (Sweden)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; RADIATION BUDGET; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84925596407     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022497     Document Type: Article

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