Vertical grid spacing necessary for simulating tropical cirrus clouds with a high-resolution atmospheric general circulation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4150-4157

  Seiki, Tatsuya ^a   Kodama, Chihiro ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^a,b   Hashino, Tempei ^c   Hagihara, Yuichiro ^d   Okamoto, Hajime ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cirrus clouds; cloud microphysics; general circulation model; vertical resolution

Indexed keywords

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE WATER CONTENT; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84931562565     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064282     Document Type: Article

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