Performance of Goddard earth observing system GCM column radiation models under heterogeneous cloud conditions

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 365-382

  Oreopoulos, Lazaro ^a,b   Chou, M D ^b,e   Khairoutdinov, M ^c   Barker, H W ^d   Cahalan, R F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Column radiation model; General Circulation Model; Goddard earth observing system

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIATION;

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODELS (CAM); DATASETS; RADIATION MODELS; SHORTWAVES;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 8644277057     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.03.025     Document Type: Article

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