Aerosols, cloud microphysics, and fractional cloudiness

BA Albrecht - Science, 1989 - science.org
Increases in aerosol concentrations over the oceans may increase the amount of low-level
cloudiness through a reduction in drizzle—a process that regulates the liquid-water content …

The Rossby Centre Regional Climate model RCA3: model description and performance

P Samuelsson, CG Jones, U Will´ En… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes the third full release of the Rossby Centre Regional Climate model
(RCA3), with an emphasis on changes compared to earlier versions, in particular the …

Reduction of tropical cloudiness by soot

AS Ackerman, OB Toon, DE Stevens, AJ Heymsfield… - Science, 2000 - science.org
Measurements and models show that enhanced aerosol concentrations can augment cloud
albedo not only by increasing total droplet cross-sectional area, but also by reducing …

[HTML][HTML] A large eddy simulation intercomparison study of shallow cumulus convection

AP Siebesma, CS Bretherton, A Brown… - Journal of the …, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper reports an intercomparison study on undisturbed trade wind cumulus convection
under steady-state conditions as observed during the Barbados Oceanographic and …

[PDF][PDF] A semiempirical cloudiness parameterization for use in climate models

KM Xu, DA Randall - Journal of the atmospheric …, 1996 - hogback.atmos.colostate.edu
Data produced from explicit simulations of observed tropical cloud systems and subtropical
stratocumuli are used to develop a “semiempirical” cloudiness parameterization for use in …

Outlook for research on subtropical marine stratiform clouds

DA Randall, JA Coakley, CW Fairall, RA Kropfli… - Bulletin of the American …, 1984 - JSTOR
While preparing the research plan for the First International Satellite Cloud Climatology
Project Regional Experiment (FIRE), we became steadily more convinced that a well …

[图书][B] A 140-year simulation of European climate with the new version of the Rossby Centre regional atmospheric climate model (RCA3)

E Kjellström, L Bärring, S Gollvik, U Hansson, C Jones… - 2005 - diva-portal.org
The model is used for the regionalization of two transient global climate change projections
for the time period 1961-2100. The radiative forcing of the climate system is based on …

[HTML][HTML] On the relationships among low-cloud structure, sea surface temperature, and atmospheric circulation in the summertime northeast Pacific

SA Klein, DL Hartmann, JR Norris - Journal of climate, 1995 - journals.ametsoc.org
The long-term record of observations from Ocean Weather Station (OWS) November (N),
which operated at 30 N, 140 W from 1949 to 1974, is analyzed to document the relationships …

[HTML][HTML] Sea surface temperature and large-scale circulation influences on tropical greenhouse effect and cloud radiative forcing

S Bony, KM Lau, YC Sud - Journal of Climate, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
Bony, S., and J.-P. Duvel, 1994: Influence of the vertical structure of the atmosphere on the
seasonal variation of precipitable water and greenhouse effect. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 12 963 …

[HTML][HTML] The albedo field and cloud radiative forcing produced by a general circulation model with internally generated cloud optics

TP Charlock, V Ramanathan - Journal of the atmospheric …, 1985 - journals.ametsoc.org
A spectral general circulation model (GCM) is run for perpetual January with fixed sea
surface temperature conditions. It has internally generated, variable cloud optical properties …