Understanding the varied influence of midlatitude jet position on clouds and cloud radiative effects in observations and global climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 9005-9025

  Grise, Kevin M ^a   Medeiros, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular mode; Climate variability; Cloud forcing; General circulation models; Jets; North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIATION EFFECTS; STORMS; VELOCITY;

ANNULAR MODE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLOUD FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; JET FLOW; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 85001129201     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0295.1     Document Type: Article

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