Impact of changes in the formulation of cloud-related processes on model biases and climate feedbacks

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1224-1243

  Lacagnina, Carlo ^a   Selten, Frank ^a   Siebesma, A Pier ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate model bias; cloud feedbacks; cloud radiative effects; EC Earth; tuning GCMs

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); FEEDBACK; GLOBAL WARMING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOUD FEEDBACKS; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; FEEDBACK PARAMETERS; MASS EXCHANGE RATES; MODEL CONFIGURATION; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 85027918346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000341     Document Type: Article

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