A Preliminary Evaluation of Global and East Asian Cloud Radiative Effects in Reanalyses

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 100-106

  Jian Dong, Li ^a,b   Jiang Yu, Mao ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cloud radiative effect; East Asia; evaluation; reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CORRELATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SUMMER; WINTER;

EID: 85075732117     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2015.11447245     Document Type: Article

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