How does increasing horizontal resolution in a global climate model improve the simulation of aerosol-cloud interactions?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5058-5065

  Ma, Po Lun ^a   Rasch, Philip J ^a   Wang, Minghuai ^b   Wang, Hailong ^a   Ghan, Steven J ^a   Easter, Richard C ^a   Gustafson, William I ^a   Liu, Xiaohong ^c   Zhang, Yuying ^d   Ma, Hsi Yen ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosol indirect forcing; aerosol cloud interactions; global climate model; resolution dependence

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DROPS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD DROPLET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUCLEATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; SPACING;

EID: 84948711317     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064183     Document Type: Article

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