Abstract: ccurate cloud-resolving model simulations of cloud cover and cloud water content for boundary layer clouds are difficult to achieve without vertical grid spacing well below 100 m, especially for inversion-topped stratocumulus. ...

Abstract: A one-dimensional, time-dependent model of the boundary layer has been developed to study the effects of pollutants an local meteorological variables. Radiative terms in the model are computed using a fourstream discrete-ordinate ...

Abstract: Vertical profiles of hydrometeor occurrence from the multiscale modeling framework (MMF) climate model are compared with profiles observed by a vertically pointing millimeter wavelength cloud radar (located in the U.S. ...

Abstract: A topic of current practical interest is the accurate characterization of the synoptic-scale atmospheric state from wind profiler and radiosonde network observations. The authors have examined several related and commonly ...

Abstract: n atmospheric classification for northwestern Australia is used to define periods of monsoon activity and investigate the interannual and intraseasonal variability of the Australian monsoon, as well as long-term precipitation ...

Abstract: Pyranometers have been used for many years to measure broadband surface incoming solar irradiance, data that is necessary for surface energy budget, cloud forcing, and satellite validation research. Because such measurements ...

Abstract: We present a systematic development of the delta-four-stream approximation for calculations of radiative fluxes in planetary atmospheres. We illustrate that an analytic solution for this approximation can be derived ...

Abstract: Thin cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) are warmed through the absorption of infrared radiation. The response of the cloud and the surrounding atmosphere to this thermal forcing is investigated through ...

Abstract: We present an approximate technique for solving the radiative transfer problem for fluxes reflected, transmitted, and absorbed by a homogeneous scattering layer. The technique is a straightforward ?delta-function? modification ...

Abstract: A 4-yr climatology (1997?2000) of warm boundary layer cloud properties is developed for the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. Parameters in the ...