Impacts of the direct radiative effect of aerosols in numerical weather prediction over Europe using the ALADIN-HIRLAM NWP system

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 172-173, Issue , 2016, Pages 163-173

  Toll, V ^a,b   Gleeson, E ^c   Nielsen, K P ^d   Mannik A ^a,b   Masek J ^e   Rontu, L ^f   Post, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Estonian Environment Agency   (Estonia)

^c Irish Meteorological Service   (Ireland)

^d DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e Czech Hydrometorological Institute   (Czech Republic)

^f FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aerosol direct radiative effect; ALADIN HIRLAM system; MACC reanalysis; MACv1 aerosol climatology; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS;

ALADIN-HIRLAM SYSTEM; DIRECT RADIATIVE EFFECT OF AEROSOLS; HIGH-RESOLUTION LIMITED AREA MODELS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; REANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HUMIDITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84961358390     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.01.003     Document Type: Article

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