A new radiation infrastructure for the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy, based on version 2.51)

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2209-2222

  Dietmüller, Simone ^a,c   Jöckel, Patrick ^a   Tost, Holger ^b   Kunze, Markus ^c   Gellhorn, Catrin ^c   Brinkop, Sabine ^a   Frömming, Christine ^a   Ponater, Michael ^a   Steil, Benedikt ^d   Lauer, Axel ^a   Hendricks, Johannes ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA MANAGEMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84975785407     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-2209-2016     Document Type: Article

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