The influence of atmospheric cloud radiative effects on the large-scale atmospheric circulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7263-7278

  Li, Ying ^a   Thompson, David W J ^a   Bony, Sandrine ^b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Climatology; Cloud radiative effects; Clouds; Dynamics; General circulation models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; DYNAMICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; METEOROLOGY; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; EXTRATROPICAL CIRCULATION; EXTRATROPICAL LATITUDES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; PLANETARY WAVE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION;

EID: 84945563501     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00825.1     Document Type: Article

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