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RISA Simple Model of the Northeast Pacific Stratocumulus to Cumulus Transition Based on the Climatological Surface Energy Budget
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ir advected equatorward by the trade winds off the coast of California is associated with decreasing cloud cover and is subjected to increasingly warmer sea surface temperatures. These gradients imply large gradients in ...
On the Arctic Wintertime Climate in Global Climate Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nergy fluxes important for determining the Arctic surface temperatures during winter in present-day simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multimodel dataset are investigated. The model ...
The Importance of Representing Mixed-Phase Clouds for Simulating Distinctive Atmospheric States in the Arctic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: bservations from the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA) suggest that the Arctic Basin is characterized by two distinctly different preferred atmospheric states during wintertime. These states appear ...
Subtropical Cloud-Regime Transitions: Boundary Layer Depth and Cloud-Top Height Evolution in Models and Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this study, the mean and variability of boundary layer height (BLH) are analyzed along a transect in the eastern Pacific Ocean for the summer of 2003 using BLH estimates based on the height of the main relative humidity ...
Improved Representation of Marine Stratocumulus Cloud Shortwave Radiative Properties in the CMIP5 Climate Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he radiative properties of subtropical marine stratocumulus clouds are investigated in an ensemble of current-generation global climate models from phase 5 of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). Using a ...