Thermodynamic control of anvil cloud amount

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 32, 2016, Pages 8927-8932

  Bony, Sandrine ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^b   Coppin, David ^a   Becker, Tobias ^b   Reed, Kevin A ^c   Voigt, Aiko ^d   Medeiros, Brian ^e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anvil cloud; Climate sensitivity; Cloud feedback; Convective aggregation; Large scale circulation

Indexed keywords

ADIABATICITY; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CLOUD; CONFERENCE PAPER; COOLING; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MASS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 84982949495     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601472113     Document Type: Article

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