Evaluations of tropospheric aerosol properties simulated by the community earth system model with a sectional aerosol microphysics scheme

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 865-914

  Yu, Pengfei ^a   Toon, Owen B ^a   Bardeen, Charles G ^b   Mills, Michael J ^b   Fan, Tianyi ^a,c   English, Jason M ^a   Neely, Ryan R ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aerosol; model; satellite

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BINS; FOG; MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOLS;

AERONET; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COST ANALYSIS; COUPLING; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MISR; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027950807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000421     Document Type: Article

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