Correction to: Shallowness of tropical low clouds as a predictor of climate models’ response to warming (Climate Dynamics, (2016), 47, 1-2, (433-449), 10.1007/s00382-015-2846-0);Shallowness of tropical low clouds as a predictor of climate models’ response to warming

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 433-449

  Brient, Florent ^a   Schneider, Tapio ^a,b   Tan, Zhihong ^a,b   Bony, Sandrine ^c   Qu, Xin ^d   Hall, Alex ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Convection; Low clouds; Tropics; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84944542733     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05675-2     Document Type: Erratum

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