Assessment of NASA GISS CMIP5 and post-CMIP5 simulated clouds and TOA radiation budgets using satellite observations. Part II: TOA radiation budget and CREs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1842-1864

  Stanfield, Ryan E ^a   Dong, Xiquan ^a   Xi, Baike ^a   Del Genio, Anthony D ^b   Minnis, Patrick ^c   Doelling, David ^c   Loeb, Norman ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Cloud parameterizations; Cloud radiative effects; Model comparison; Model evaluation performance; Radiation budgets

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; NASA; RADIATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; SATELLITES;

CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; RADIATION BUDGET;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84961353263     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00249.1     Document Type: Article

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