An ensemble constrained variational analysis of atmospheric forcing data and its application to evaluate clouds in CAM5

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 33-48

  Tang, Shuaiqi ^a,b   Zhang, Minghua ^a   Xie, Shaocheng ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84958729688     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024167     Document Type: Article

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